Newman K Perry (DDR 883) - Naval Cruise Book

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DEDICATION CAPTAIN G. F. BRITNER JR., USN COMMANDER DESTROYER SQUADRGN TWENTY

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USS NEWMAN K, PERRY CDD 8837 was built by the Con- solidated Ship Corporation of Orange, Texas, The ship was commissioned on July 26, 1945 and named in memory of EnsigntNewman Kershaw Perry, U. S. Naval Academy Class of 1901, who was killed in a boiler explosion on board the USS BENNINGTON in 1905. After her maiden Shakedown cruise andvarious operations in the Atlantic Ocean, NEWMAN K. PERRY sailed West in November 1945 to become an active unit of the Pacific Fleet. In the summer of 1946, she saw duty at Bikini Atoll for Operation Crossroads, the first test of the atom as a weapon of naval warfare. During her Pacific tour, N E WMAN K. PERRY was awarded the COMMANDER DESTROYER FORCE PACIFIC E for outstanding battle efficiency in both 1948 and 1949. In 1949, more-over, she was one of two ships in the entire Navy to receive the Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Award, in recognition of her outstanding fitness and readiness as a naval unit. NEWMAN K, PERRY transferred back to the Atlantic Fleet during 1950 and participated in aMediterranean deployment with the SIXTH Fleet. A Navy Yard overhaul in 1951 sup- plied her with many new equipments aimed towards in- creasing the ship's effectiveness, Refresher training at Guantanamo Bay followed this Navy Yard period, Following three years of routine operations, includingade- ployment with the SIXTH Fleet in the Mediterranean, NEWMAN K, PERRY earned her third Battle Efficiency E in 1955. In a second Mediterranean deployment during the same year, the ship was selected to represent the United States Government at the inauguration ceremonies of W, V, S. Tubman as President ofthe Republic of Liberia, Repeating her previous performance, NEWMAN K, PERRY again won the Battle Efficiency E during Atlantic Fleet Operations in 1956, She returned to the SIXTH Fleet in 1957, and participated in Midshipman Cruise Alpha, June 1958 found NEWMAN K, PERRY in a new role as 3 schoolshipforCOMMANDER DESTROYER FORCE ATLANTIC, She operated in this capacity out of N e w po r t, Rhode Island, until the Jordan Crisis, when she was re- called to the SECOND Fleet to participate in extensive readiness exercises followed by a seven month Mediter- ranean deployment, HI