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Ship'fs History The USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS QDD-8235 is the second ship named in honor of Samuel Booker Roberts, Jr., Coxswain, USNR. Samuel B. Roberts, Jr. was born in San Francisco May 12, 1921. He enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve on April 13, 1939 and was fatally wounded at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, on September 27, 1942. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for delib- erately using his landing craft for drawing enemy gunfire away from other craft evac- uating trapped Marines. The first USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS QDE-4131 was lost off Samar, Philippine Islands, on October 25, 1944 while heroically defending an Escort Carrier Task Group engaged in a surface action with Japanese battleships and cruisers during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. The present USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS was built by the Consolidated Steel Corpora- tion Shipyard, Orange, Texas. The ship was commissioned there on 20 December 1946. The ship is 390 feet long overall with an extreme breadth of 40 feet. The main battery consists of six five-inch guns in three mounts and five torpedoes. Her anti- aircraft defenses include the six five-inch guns plus six three-inch guns. She has a speed in excess of 34 knots. Her normal peacetime allowance is 13 officers and 250 men. The ROBERTS has operated in the North and South Atlantic, North and South Pacific, Mediterranean, Caribbean, North Sea, Red Sea, China Sea, Persian Gulf, and Indian Ocean. She has completed five cruises to the Mediterranean, one to South America, one cruise around the world and several visits to our immediate neighbors of Canada, Central America, and the West Indies. Her past ports of call include cities in Algeria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Malaya, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Republic of Haiti, Republic of the Philippines, Scotland, Spain, and Wales. The USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS is currently a unit of Destroyer Squadron TEN, Destroyer Flotilla TWO, Destroyer Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet. The homeport is Newport, Rhode Island. The story of the ROBERTS' latest Mediterranean cruise is written and depicted on the following pages. 2
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