St Louis (LKA 116) - Naval Cruise Book

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Y ' 1 YGKO UK After we dropped off the Marines, who offloaded to g and goof around on Mt. Fuji for 10 days, we took Off ' n for Yokosuka. Being as you have to be a you g Rockefeller to do the town, we had sports competition on a divisional level throughout our stay in Yoko. There was competition in softball and bowling to help us pass our time constructively. The weather was cool to almost cold and it rained plenty, but most of the schedule got played and with a minimum of bloodshed between teams who were playing for the hell of it. Yoko, itself, is known for its Fleet Exchange with low, low prices on high, high quality merchandise and for the Japanese drivers on the outside, who somehow make some sort of sense out of the chaos of the world infamous streets of Japan. 0

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CO Captain Frank Roach is no no . , an old LST fDuval Countyj and placed into commission a new LST fSan Bernadinol. In fact, he had been all around the fleet 1n Destroyers, Carrier and Cruisers. The Captain says, besides being an Ex-enlisted man, he is an ex-nuke and had been working on plans to convert our engineering plant. With his knowledge of electronics and computers plus his Masters Degree in Electronic Engineering, he probably has plans for expanding the k h'l Scan Target Detection System. Since he vice to the Gator Force having commanded SPS-10 Radar into a trac w 1 e has also had duty with OPTEVFOR and the research and development director in OPNAV anything is possible. All this and ship handling tool, h ll to kee and in his cabin he has living plants and a collection of Sea S e s p . . . ld h'm com an . On most any sunny day, with the ship 1n port, you cou .1 . p Y find him on a Golf course with some of the sh1p's officers, but not discussing ship driving. Q 'N f1