Barton (DD 722) - Naval Cruise Book

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A CCHRONOLOCGY OIF OUR WORLD CRUISE Departed Norfolk ......... Transited Panama Canal ..--- Panama City ...... San Diego ...... ---- May 15 ------- May 20 ----- May 20-21 April 29-30 Pearl Harbor ...... -.--,,-- I une 6.7 Crossed Dateline ....... ,,,,,,, j une 12 Yokosuka, Japan .....-..,....,...,,...,,......, ,, ,---- june 18-19 Task Force 77 off Korean East Coast . ..... ..... I une 21-july 9 Sasebo, Japan .................. . ........e............... . ....... . ........... ,. Iuly 10-20 Task Force 95 in Wonsan Harbor, North Korea . july 21-Aug. 23 Hit by Shore Battery in Wonsan Yokosuka ........................ Hunter-Killer Exercises ....... Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan .,.... Task Force 77 ..................... Hit by Mine .... Sasebo ...... --- Singapore ...... L ..... .. ......- Crossed Equator ...... Colombo, Ceylon ...... Aden ................--------------- Transited Suez Canal ....... Naples, Italy ...... Genoa .......... -- Villefranche ..... Gibraltar ............-.- Arrived Norfolk ...... ................................ Aug. 1 0 ----------- Aug. 2 5-3 1 Aug. 31-Sept. 10 sept. 10-12 sept. 15-16 ,-------. Sept. 16 Sept. 20-Oct. 19 ------ Oct. 26-28 Oct. 28 Nov. 1-3 ----- Nov. 9-11 ----- Nou. 14 ------ N011. 17-22 Nov. 23-26 Nov. 26-29 ------- Dec. 1-2 Dec. 12

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two weeks. From ComSeventhFleet came 'GTHE BAR- TON 'IS COMMENDED FOR THE EXP-EDITIOUS REPAIRS EFFECTED BY SHIPS FORCE FOLLOW- ING SHELL HIT BY THE ENEMY X WELL DONE X VADM CLARK. After completing duty in Wonsan and a short rest in Yokosuka, the BARTON rejoined the other ships of DesDiv 21 and DesDiv 262 for an anti-submarine training exercise off the east coast of Japan. At the end of the exercise we paid a Visit to Hakodate, on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. From Hakodate DesDiv 21 proceeded to rejoin Task Force 77. It proved to be a short tour for the BARTON, however, when on the evening of 1 6 Sept., a k dai' after ioining the task force, the BARTON struc a floating mine. The 6XP105ion tore a 15, by 25' hole in our starboard side, completell' flooding the for- ward iii-groom and killing the five men who were on Korean action for the watch there. This ended the BARTON, and we proceeded to the Sasebo shipytfd for a month's stay to eifect repai1'S- The period in the shipyard was a battle in itself for the BARTON personnel. For to be able to con- tinue our ,round-the-world cruise the ship had to be ready to -sail by 19 Oct. It was at first thought it would be impossible to meet this deadline, but with ship's force, repair teams from the USS BRYCE CAN- YON QAD-36j and Japanese workmen laboring over- time the deadline was met. Operating on two boilers the BARTON, in com- pany with the SOLEY, left Sasebo on 19 Oct. and proceeded to a rendezvous at Aden with the rest of DesDiv 21 and DesDiv 262. This leg of our journey saw us stopping for visits at Singapore and Colombo, Ceylon. On 'the trip from Singapore to Ceylon we slipped across the Equator and all Pollywogs were ceremoniously welcomed into King Neptune's Royal Order of the Deep. From Aden we transited the Suez Canal and then across che Mediterranean for a four-day visit in

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