Dyess (DDR 880) - Naval Cruise Book

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Hruis ar zlfiifc An around The world cruise begins long before The acTual daTe of deparTure. OperaTional planning and logisTic preparaTions commence monThs before and acceleraTe in Tempo righT up To The minuTe The ship pulls away from The pier. EveryThing from elecTron Tubes To TeleType paper musT be sTocked in sufficienT auanTiTies To lasT an indefiniTe period of Time. Though logisTic supporT for U.S. Naval forces has improved greaTly since The days when lQoosevelT's GreaT WhiTe l:leeT sTeamed around The globe, Today's warships require more Than flour and fuel To keep sTeaming and fighT a war. There were dozens of Times on The cruise when DYESS' fighTing capabiliTy was saved by an adeguaTely sfocked sToreroom of spare parTs. Came The ineviTable day, rarher cold and dreary January l9Th, and The squadron goT underway. IT was The lasT cold weaTher anyone would see for a long Time. AfTer a brief excursion for an ASW exercise, The eighT ships formed up and sTeam- ed souTh for Rodman, Balboa by way of The Panama Canal. AfTer a day's liberTy in Panama CiTy, several days of seasickness in The Gulf of TehuanTepec, and an eighT hour fuel sTop in San Diego Cwhere Telephones were jammed wiTh sailors making lasT nosTalgic good-bys aT sTaTeside raTesi, The squadron Turned wesT for Pearl Harbor. Suddenly one day when The ship was only a 'few hundred miles from l-lawaii, radio disTress circuiTs came alive wiTh Traffic, and we soon realized ThaT a small air plane was ouT of fuel and abouT To diTch in The viciniTy. l:lSKE and DYESS were deTached To effecT The rescue. The Tiny plane skimmed inTo The heavy seas alongside DYESS and sank 90 seconds afTer iT hiT The waTer. l3oTh piloT and navigaTor escaped, however, and were soon broughT safely aboard To DYESS' sick bay. The ship's four day sTopover in Hawaii was exTended anoTher day by difficulTies wiTh The forward evaporaTor, a problem ThaT was To plague The engineers Through- ouT The cruise.Thus The DYESS had To TransiT The resT of The Pacific alone making brief fuel sTops aT Midway and Guam and finally arriving in Subic l3ay,l3hillipines on March Qnd via The San Bernardino STraiTs. T'