Truckee (AO 147) - Naval Cruise Book

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Shipyard, achieved he r reco ,unit of Task Force relrnalinder of that year During the first Jfolur Service Force, Sixth deploymentwand ports of cal The, of 19610 sum nie r included a official reco and S tate si ragga taps k the No .,f rbd of mo f I a BMW at ' ' 527' gl , , W paw 1- 43 . X ss Q, -L I, - t , g y i -fi ,i K I I . - 4 --,,I.::r... S. .:-2512? .'1..1 ruise. P o United ,States Second Fleet. side in the single month o 1 cruise. - Q or the k. This corn- :led for which were vis ited rd overhaul period at the Norfolk Naval for Guantanamo Bay , Cuba, where she 59, TRUCKEE operated in North Atlantic waters as sident Eisenhower's round trip flight to Europe. The erved in the Mediterranean as flagship for Commander hment operations were a c c o rn p l i s h e d during this rcelona, Tulorr, Beirut, Istanbul and Athens. V United States S e c on d Fleet. The highlights of the the TRUCKEEJS third midshi men cruise, and an un- perating in Northern Atlantic wi E ihth a tasksforce of ed the Arctic Circle, a factwhich entitled all the men Se Certificate. On late notice, the crew wxlasqctegnporarily ven, Geilxmany, cancelled. They, howevergrfound Lisbon, The ship returned to the United States invlsfalte ,October, istmaf's'7anhd New Years in Cannes, and St. Valentine's Day in Barcelona second s uc c e s sfiven' winter deployment to the Mediterranean. Other ports of call ,Gpeeceg Barcelona,'Spain3 Livorno, Italy, Augusta Bay, Sicily, Rhodes, Greece, wer 1,60 refuelingstayt Qsea were accomplished during this de p loyme nt with the United from November to' February 1961. Afspirited cofmpe tition among destroyers, with tiine while,,aQ'lo'n'g's'i.d1e for refueling, provided a spark to the sornetimes-gmonotpnousmw, at'sea.i-f'The ,record was broken with almost every r e f uelin g operation until both QDD-94211 and, USS DICKSON QDD-7061 established identical tim e S of 1. 4, minutes - a rew s of the two destroyers andthe 'TRUCKEE alredeservedly proud. 'A final highlight igranearnfcruise. was the replenishment off the Voiceof America Coast Guard ship, COURIER Vi , was'a-welcome, sight, w he n Conf-March Z, 1961, a tired and well traveled crew re- and Berkley,U'Virginia.f . 1' , Q -in is port in order toprepare for a yard 'Overhaul period after having beenaway for twelve 'TRUCKEEFS third o v errha ul' period from May' to Ju'ly,was -divided b etw e en'