Brownson (DD 868) - Naval Cruise Book

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LT. CHARLES E. RAWSON, USN LT- JAMES Ho ACKISSv USN ENGINEERING OFFICER RELIEVING OPERATIONS OFFICER LTIG. EUGENE R. SHANNON, USN LTJG. FRANK E. SALERNO, USN GUNNERY OFFICER OPERATIONS OFFICER LTJG. RICI-I.:'..F?.If . WENDEROTH, SC, USNR LTJG. HARRY W. KINSLEY, USN SUP- LY OFFICER ASSISTANT NAVIGATOR

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Since being commissioned he has held a wide variation of duties including tours on subchasers, destroy- ers, amphibious ships, aircraft carriers, and shore billets with The Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and The Commander of the Military Sea Transport Service. In December of 1953 he relieved Commader C. H. Carlson as commanding officer of the Brownson and has taken her through .a shipyard overhaul in Boston, refresher training in Guantanamo Bay, and the World Cruise. A family man, he and Mrs. Ring, the former Gladys Kjonaas, have one son, E. D. Ring, Jr. tinuous destroyer duty including a tour with Destroyer Squadron 18 Staff until 1950: next he taught at the Naval Academy for a year, then turned student himself attending Post Grad- uate School and Purdue University where he studied fire control and industrial engineering. Our Exec joined the Brownson just prior to the -World Cruise. He and Mrs. Butt, the former Frances Dun- can, have three boys, Cyrus Hugh IV, Duncan Marshall, and Robert Alan. LCDR. CYRUS HUGH BUT, USN EXECUTIVE OFFICER

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,QUE ' ' ' ' ' E ' ' ' ' ' ' . t ' 'k' . . ' , .Y. ,.,,...., 1 -,.,-...,s-,-....al I.I,,,,z4..4..l! !....,--a.4.1.,,..,.,.,...i,g.f.....' .z...c.Q1L.44- ' SHIIVS HISIIIIIY Our BROWNSON is the Admiral Willard H. BROWNSON, the years from 1865 to 1907. Placed in on the go ever since. Among up a reputation as an operating ship - or In less than ten years she has been in and the South Pole with Admiral Rich tended tours in the Mediterranean with with operation Mainbrace in '52, in Equator again to South America wi world in '54-'55, Ports-of Persia to Japan, China proud heritage is Destroyer the ship would Brownsonn and ember 8, 1950 SON collided caused the purpose, ' ations in some fm compensated right rudder, pa port list which everything that In closing it put it all over I Excellent feeder, 1 M The glorious :bouncing VB jvesselsg lnja, a slight port twist be named in honor of Rear naval career covered late in 1945, she has been far and wide she has built d put it - a steamer . the earth: to the Antarctic 1946, through several ex- across the Arctic Circle Caribbean , and across the and finally around the to Syria, for This ave giventhe sh a ballast., Since