Truckee (AO 147) - Naval Cruise Book

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CAPTAIN R. L. MURRILL, USN COMMANDING OFFICER 20 January, 1969 to 2 JUI1e, 1970 Captain Robert L. MURRILL, United States Navy, a native of Bonne Terre, Missouri, was commissioned upon graduation from North- western University in June 1946. He served in USS OKALOOSA QAPA 2193 and USS FISKE CDD 8423 prior to reporting to Submarine School in January 1950. Subsequently while in the Submarine Force, he served in USS CORPORAL QSS 3463, USS TROTTA QSS 4213, Staff Submarine School as Instructor Officer's Course, USS SEAFOX QSS 4023 as Executive Officer and commanded USS BLUEBACK QSS 5813. He has also served as Operations and Plans Officer on the Staff of Commander Submarine Flotilla ONE. Other duties have included post-graduate studies in Stanford University, Bureau of Naval Personnel and under instruction in the Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia. Prior to assignment as Commanding Officer of the USS TRUCKEE QAO 1473, his most recent duty was Commander Submarine Division FIFTY- THREE. Captain MURRILL and Mrs. MURRILL, the former Jeanne M. Manson of Desloge, Missouri reside in Norfolk, Virginia with their three children, Teresa, Sandra and Robert, Jr.

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her hi tory Throughout her distinguished ca- reer, TRUCKEE has steamed many miles and pumped many millions of gallons of fuel in support of Second and Sixth Fleets. She has been involved in fleet exercises from the Arctic Circle to the Equator and from the Caribbean to the Eastern Mediterranean. During the Cuban Missile Crisis and more recently during the Jordanian Crisis of 1970 TRUCKEE played a major role in the support of the Fleet. TRUCKEE has indeed excelled in her role as the Can-do, Will-do ship. A crew of seventeen officers and 266 enlisted men keep the super oiler TRUCKEE has deployed to the Medi- terranean with the U. S. Sixth Fleet seven times, each time serving as flag- ship for Commander Service Force Sixth Fleet. During this deployment TRUCKEE fueled 251 ships and pumped over 44,739,475 gallons of fuel in support of the Sixth Fleet. She also visited eight ports in four different countries. servicing the fleet. TRUCKEE is over 100 feet longer than the Washington Monument is tall, her overall length is 655 feet l0 inchesg her beam is 86 feet 4 inches, and her displacement is 40,000 tons. TRUCKEE is equiped to carry an underway replenishment group Comman- der and his staff. TRUCKEE also has a helicopter landing platform which en- ables her to conduct vertical replenish- ment along with fueling operations.

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