Phillip (DD 498) - Naval Cruise Book

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'kir COMMANDER WILLIAM P. FERGUSON ASSUMED COMMAND OF U55 PHIL-IP AT YOKOSUKA, JAPAN, IN MARCH 1964, THE LAST MONTH OF HER 1963-1964 WESTPAC CRUISE. COMMANDER FERGUSON WAS GRADUATED FROM THE US NAVAL ACADEMY IN JUNE 1944, WITH THE CLASS OF 1945, AND AFTER FIVE MONTHS AT THE NAVAL SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL, HARVARD, HE WAS ASSIGNED TO USS KID CDD-6615. TRANSFERRING TO THE LINE IN JULY 1946, COMMANDER FERGUSON THEN SERVED ABOARD USS HENLEY CDD-762, IN THE GUNNERY DEPARTMENT AND USS HANSON fDD-8325 IN SEVERAL BILLETS, INCLUDING GUNNERY OFFICER AND OPERATIONS OFFICER, UNTIL MAY 1950. HE THEN JOINED THE STAFF OF COMMANDANT TENTH NAVAL DISTRICTKCOMMANDER CARIBBEAN SEA FRONTIER AS FLAG LIEUTENANT, AND IN JANUARY 1953, HE TOOK COMMAND OF USS PCEC 873. HE THEN RETURNED ASHORE AND ATTENDED THE US NAVAL WAR COLLEGE , NEWPORT, AND UPON GRADUATION WAS ORDERED TO STAFF DUTY WITH COMMANDER CARRIER DIVISION TWO. IN JULY 1957, COMMANDER FERGUSON RETURNED TO THE NAVAL WAR COLLEGE WITH THE STAFF AND IN OCTOBER 1959 REPORTED ABOARD USS ROCHESTER fCA-12.4, AS GUNNERY OFFICER. IN FEBRUARY OF 1961, HE REPORTED TO CINCPACFLT AT PEARL HARBOR WHERE HE SERVED IN THE OPERATIONS AND LOGISTICS DIVISIONS UNTIL COMING TO PHILIP- COMMANDER FERGUSON IS MARRIED TO THE FORMER MISS PAULINE WRIGHT OF MODESTO, CALIFORNIA. THE FERGUSONS, WHOSE PERMANENT HOME IS IN SEAL BEACH, CALIFORNIA, HAVE THREE CHILDREN, MICHAEL, STEPHEN AND NANCY, AND ARE CURRENTLY RESIDING IN AIEA, HAWAII. GBM 'Tig 3 Xi., E E 'Q'-.vcd xi! ll 11 I :Q C 1 7 V IE' 5 l f f F E I -V L 5 O 6's1'50' nv , 1 X- Q .1 ' E e 0 E L ,E Q' 2 if-,L ' O ', fi ,! W., 5 1' 0:.ll'