Gyatt (DDG 1) - Naval Cruise Book

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u. s. s. eYA1'r conen A X f ' Care of Fleei' Posf Omce New York, New York 5 NM -0 4, Z A lf' .:' Xxxx xxxx S xys' fr mf, Ia Spezia, Italy, was our next port. We moored alongside the destroyer tender TIDEWATER on 26 Nay for our second period of routine maintenance and repairs, we remained there until the 7th of June. While in La Spezia, many GYATT sailors who had not been to Rome made the trip and also took advantage of tours to Florence and Pisa, with its famous leaning tower. At sea for 3 days after leaving La Spezia, we moored on 10 June at our first Spanish port of call - Valencia. The bull fights were, by far, the biggest drawing card here. While many of us browsed around the beautiful plaza and its many colorful sidewalk cafes in the center of town, crowds of Spaniards walked down to the docks daily to gaze at our silent blue and gold missiles poised on the launcher. These crowds always included many children, who were given kites and the opportunity to learn and play baseball with the sailors. From the 15th to the 17th of June we participated in a combined exercise with the British called URoyal Flushn, which was largely an air defense exercise. For the next two weeks, we exer- cised in air defense and submarine defense, as well as completing our 3rd at-sea replenishment of food and supplies from ships of the service force. We also stopped just long enough to meet the Anti- Submarine Task Force and pick up 10 1st Class fseniorl Midshipmen from the Naval Academy and NRCTC Units for Z, weeks of on the job training prior to their returning to the States for their final year of schooling. The 2nd of July found us accompanying the Sixth Fleet Flagship, DES MOINES, into her home port of Villefranche, France for a visit until 11 July. On 12 July we left Villefranche and arrived the next day in our second Spanish port - Barcelona. We moored alongside the destroyer tender TIDEWATER once again for installation of a new radar antenna. Here too, the bull fights were popular among the destroyermen, and they continued to attract large groups until 18 July, when we departed for Toulon, France, entering that port the next day. We remained in Toulon until the 13th of August, when we went to sea, again with Task Force Sixty, and operated in the Eastern Mediterranean until the 22nd of August, when we transitted the Straits of Gibralter and shifted to the command of Commander Second Fleet for the Atlantic crossing, arriving in Charleston on the 31st of August. S6000

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4' I 'NJA 49 g I 5 '5 ' I 0 I ko, : xlxxxsN . s the Vatican City and St. Peterfs ,- xxx D N xc' J nl X,f f r NF U. S. S. GYATT IDDG-I 1 Care of Fleet Posf Office New York, New York The quarterly squadron competitive grades were also received during this period. These included competition and evaluation in Engineering, Communications, Electronics, Anti-Submarine Warfare, and Smartness. GYATT was first or tied for first in four of the five categories and was ranked first overall in the squadron for the quarter - our nu ber H19 was right in style. Once again, on 30 April, we joined Task Force Sixty for air defense exercises in the Central Mediterranean. On the Ath of May we became part of NATO Task Force 239 and participated with group in air defense exercise HREGHX In until 11 bhyy We were then detached and proceeded with the FORRESTAL once again, this time enroute to Split, Yugoslavia, arriving there on the 14th and remaining until the 16th of Nay. For most of- country whose people live and rather apprehensive as to how at the landing to see the two had to be blocked off and loc us, this was our first visit to a work under communist rule and we were we would be received. People gathered ships in such large numbers that streets al policemen stationed to hold back the curious crowds. The bay was filled with small boats carrying paying customers who wanted a closer look at the super-carrier and HThe Uorld's Firstu. All ideas of feeling ill-at-ease were soon dismissed upon reaching the shore. Ue were told that all Yugoslavian children must study English in school, and the liberty parties found it was these smiling children who Ubroke the icen with shouts of, WGood day, how are you?H, and, HThank you very muchn. After that, everyone conversations as best they could, and for two days the joined in the hotel patios, Americans and symbol of the harbor entrance restaurants, and sidewalk cafes were filled with Yugoslavians, laughing and trying to understand each other's language, all apparently unaffected by the giant communist hammer and sickle which stands on the sea wall at the We departed Split and proceeded directly arriving on the bus-loads of us and most famous sight in Home wa 19th and remaining until the 23rd went to Rome for a two-day look at cities in the world. Many felt tha to Naples, Italy, of May. Several one of the oldest t the most impressive Basilica, which has been the residence of the Pbpes 1377. Some GYKTT crew members were an audience with Pope John XXIII on From the 23rd to the 25th major replenishment at sea and anti- the western coast of Italy. Six and the heart ofCatholicism since part of a group which was granted Saturday, May 21st. of Lhy'we were occupied with submarine warfare exercises off

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