Moale (DD 693) - Naval Cruise Book

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The rest 3 f the she. w was equally succ •ssful. Ba ley and Claude V. Ricket s shot a drone out o the air with ive display of five nch fire power, while the Columb is with her ASROC and Zellars w th her D sh demonstrated n ore moc ern ASW we aponry as the flagship steamed pas the firing lint . The car iers, of course, put on a sho voftheitow n. The highhg hrofth show, howe ver. was the P ass-in-Rc ' lew. Here the enti e fleet in full dress asse mblcd in two column abreast and each unit got o take its curtain call as Little Rock passed in betv. een the ranks

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is brief and charged with an unusual air of anticipate July, we weighed anchor and headed south towards a peculia Moale. For we had received a message that COMSIXTHFLT l demonstrate the difficulties of life on an old destroyer and the that coped with them. The dignitary: Hon. Paul R. Ignati of the Navy. The destroyer: USS Moale (DD-693). 10 July found us gliding alongside Little Rock as SECNAV was highlined aboard.