Boxer (CVS 21) - Naval Cruise Book

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I 8 I I J BCDXEIQ 'Like aII noble. ladies ol: 'great names, the BOXEI2 can point with pride to a Iine ol? illustrious Forebears. I-Ier name is inseparably linked with American naval history since its early beginnings, and the Feats ot our BOXEI2 ol: today guarantee an even Firmeriposition in the annals ol: naval achievement. The prows ot the BOXEIQS have ploughed the waters ol: the seven seas. Their mastsfihave borne Old Glory to the Iiarthest shores ol: the world and have impressed men ol: several generations and many lands with the might ol: American naval power. V As our name implies, the successive BOXEIQS have been warriors ol: renown and have proudly Iived up to their tighting name. The first BOXEI2 was built in I8I5 under the personal direction ot Commodore Oliver I-Iazard Perry, who Iater achieved undying Fame by opening the empire ol: Japan to world trade. The men ol: the BOXER today, therefore, are Fulfilling Perry's dreams ot the tuturie by manning a great warship named The Boxerl' and calling at the teeming ports ot a new Japan whose Flow ot mercantile trade encircles the globe. The First BOXEI2 served in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and the Gull: of Mexico until I8I7 when she was Iost olit Central America. The second BOXEI2 was at one time commanded by D. G. C'Damn the torpedoesul Farragut and was the First to enter Pacific waters, so blazing a trail that would be widened by her descendants into a thoroughfare ol: naval trattic. Atter seventeen years ol: active duty in both the Atlantic and pacific, she was sold in philadelphia in I8LL8. I During the turbulent period ot Civil War' in America, the third BOXEIQ saw action in the service ot both ol: the opposing naval torces. As the 'I'ristam Shandyll, N She ran the Northern blockade ol: Southern ports. I . Captured in I86iI by the Union Forces, she success- .X Fully served the Northern cause and shared in its ' laurels oli I865. I . Our immediate predecessor, BOXEI2 IV, was devoted to a more peaceI:uI career. She served as a 'Craining ship For the future olzliicers ol: the Navy at Annapolis as well as For the boots ol: the Naval Training Center, Newport, Rhode Island. In I92O, she was turned' over to the Department ol: the Interior and steamed away to the Arctic Circle N For service in the study ot Iittle-known Alaskan regions. The story ot the U.S.S. BOXEI2 ICVA-QII begins legs than a week aI:ter Pearl I-Iarbor when, on I3 December IQ!-II, her i, .I I I I I I I I ,I 1