Elmer Montgomery (FF 1082) - Naval Cruise Book

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MANAMA, BAHRAIN - A U.S. WARSHIP FIRED A WARNING SHOT NEAR ONE OF THREE IRANIAN GUN- BOATS THAT ATTACKED A DANISH- FLAGGED SUPERTANKER IN THE SOUTH- ERN PERSIAN GULF ON SATURDAY, A PENTAGON OFFICIAL SAID. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME A U.S. WAR- SHIP HAS COME TO THE AID OF A NON- U.S. FLAGGED TANKER SINCE SECRE- TARY OF DEFENSE FRANK CARLUCCI AN- NOUNCED IN APRIL THAT SUCH ASSIS- TANCE WOULD BE PROVIDED WHEN RE- QUESTED, LT. COL. ARNOLD WILLIAMS SAID IN WASHINGTON. THE CHALLENGE CAME HOURS AF- TER IRAQI WARPLAN ES ATTACKED TWO IRANIAN TANKERS, SHATTERING A NEARLY THREE-WEEK LULL IN THE GULF'S UTANKER WAR. WILLIAMS SAID THE USS ELMER MONTGOMERY, PATROLLING THE AREA, RESPGNDED TO A REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE FROM THE TANKER, IDEN- TIFIED BY GULF SHIPPING SOURCES AS THE KARAMA MAERSK, WHICH THEY SAID WAS CARRYING SAUDI ARABIAN CRUDE OIL. HTHETANKER REPORTED BEING UN- DER ATTACK FROM THREE SMALL IRAN- IAN GUNBOATS, WILLIAMS SAID. BY THE TIME THE MONTGOMERY GOT INTO RANGE, TWO OF THE GUNBOATS HAD LEFT. ONE WAS STILL IN THE VICINI- TY. THE MONTGOMERY FIRED A WAR- NING SHOT AND THE BOAT DEPART- ED. WILLIAMS SAID THERE WERE NO IN- JURIES, DAMAGE OR CASUALTIES TO THE TANKER CR THE MONTGOMERY. HE SAID THE INCIDENT OCCURRED ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF ABU MUSA ISLAND. IN JULY LAST YEAR, U.S. WARSHIPS BEGAN ESCORTING 11 KUWAITI OIL TANKERS THAT WERE REFLAGGED WITH THE AMERICAN FLAG. IN THE NORTHERN GULF, SALVAGE TUGBOATS FOUGHT FLAMES SATUR- DAY FROM THE TWO IRANIAN SUPER- TANKERS. THEY WERE HIT AS THEY I SAILED SOUTH FROM THE KHARG IS- LAND LOADING TERMINAL, ACCORD- ING TO SHIPPING EXECUTIVES. NO CASUALTIES WERE REPORTED. THE TANKERS WERE STILL BURNING 12 HOURS AFTER THE ATTACKS LATE I FRIDAY AND EARLY SATURDAY, SAID THE SHIPPING SOURCES. THE TWO TANKERS HAD BEEN ATTACKED AT I LEAST SEVEN TIMES IN THE LAST 18 I MONTHS. THE GULF HAD BEEN QUIET SINCE I MIDIUNE, WITH ACTION IN THE NEARLY I if-YEAR-OLD WAR CONCENTRATED ON I BATTLEFIELDS ALONG THE 730-MILE I FRONTIER, WHERE IRAQ'S FORCES I HAVE SCORED A SERIES OF MAJOR VIC- I TORIES IN THE LAST THREE MONTHS. KARAMA MAERSK 453, I B'- 5 --X 'Miami,,FlOridaA34Q92ml442 ,. E- 'QW'g.QL .f. Bf3lK fn ' W'-'r M On J'Tf ',4,, QLQRQDQ yOUr qOOd shnp lerdrrfd inVGluBp1G-Gg5iBtanceLtO-our 'wjrafg yqbr X3?3'IE31'1' SIIG' gms ,BISCGOFQ-Gd in 1nLCrrwtJOnal H?tQIS bgllxaiqgn QUDOQBLB- B CSU A of hat B?-fande Qtge ' 'KaQIg 3 'I 1 her 'I:.3ffBIf:- CQSGIQIEQJTBI3 fd Q 13 3 11,1 jilifj-1353 li.IT.3B ELT?-42 to Gxprge L I. , fCCITITIT:G.2'15H,ni3- Of fi,.O'Gr',f tO .YO LL Ofrlcgfs and .C3.'6iK'w?-f I:he..gBE-Tiffieije 'th61rII?S ,Id grim ,de O thi?-H,GaTt.ir'G O:L'gan'isa'tipz3 and Of th Caotaw Offi-C6115 and c1'Gw.--Offline Kansa a up . If--YOU OI? YOLU: QOOI3 Ship STOuId G I HV- z J. ' 1 L COITG to Lhesg Spgores lt would be an honour IfOr -'Qs :CO 'W-531653123 yOLi. j S- ' -H C B L A - N Ifgars-Pi' MC KLDDG5 ffzlipr M-.m , - T n -- --' 'clhbaim CO1T::TIa1'I5IinTg 'Qi-ifiper M, - USS -ELMER I-'EONTISOIHERY' ,IFF-10823 F3.GGt-U P-Dust-.,OfT7iC:G' - I Q -I--....-.-nn..-,.-.. . A -A E -1 ' -O ,

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