USS Enterprise (CVN 65) - Naval Cruise Book

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l NS THE DEC DES Naval history since its beginning in 1775. The current on proud traditions set by seven illustrious predecessors. f 197-ton career. S l83l, the fourth ENTERPRISE, a The fifth er of I0 guns began a I4-year Navy Vette commission W3.S 21 d in March I877. , . e he made a cruise around the world in 1835- the Mississippi, Amazon and Madeira Rivers 1836. forming survey duty, COT- ' W5

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fy, ,f ENTER? The capture of a 70 ton British sloop on May 18 ENTERPRISE number two was a 25-ton schooner The Navy's Third ENTERPRISE WHS 21 l35'T0n 1775 was an auspicious event for U S Naval history purch xsed by the Continental Congress in December schooner commissioned December 17, 1779. She en- as this sloop became the first ship to be named EN 1776 Serving as an escort for convoys, she was active gagcd in combat three times, during the quasi war TERPRISE Cruising Lake Champlian that day it ln spying on enemy ships in Chesapeake Bay. with France, the war against Tripoli in 1802, and was captured by Benedict Arnold and was later used during, the War of 1812. to fight against the British . if N K' , ' 1 X X 1 ' ' .gf I, . fl ' XXX X X , 7 5, W n I 4 4 I X M . U,a , W , H i fwfzfszfvf' V I - h I I ' 1 I . . . I Q Y . , 1 . . , c s , L V at i E SPA has been a part of U.S. Niall ship to bear the name, carries 1 Onpflll 1973 xx Q33 5 1535 if

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,ff ,. , ., ,C -,+ 1 f . STHE 1.1. FIGHTING GREY LADY Until after World. War II, thelmost renowed ship to carry the name was the seventh ENTERPRISE, an aircraftcarrier com- missioned .on May11.2, 1938. Knownfas the . BigE, the 25,000- ton ship fought in numerouslPacific battles, among which were the Battleiof Midway, Guadalcanal, Leyte'Gulf, lwoiglima and Okinawa She was iawardedlla tpresidiemiai Unit Citation a Navy Unit Commendatlon and 20 Battle Stars The ship was decommissioned on February 18 1947 On November 25 1961 at the commissioning ceremony of the eighth ENTERPRISE secretary of the Navy John B Con nally J r called the subject of the ceremony a worthy successor to number seven and said that she will reign a long long time as queen of the seas The new carrier went to sea Jan 12 1962 for her shakedown cruise finishing April 15 with the highest score ever attained by a new aircraft carrier Carrier Air Wing Six came aboard June 22 1962 to form along with ENTERPRISE the most powerful seaborne unit in existence at that time In August ENTERPRISE Joined the Sixth Fleet 1n the Mediterranean for her first deployment Following her return to Norfolk on Oct 11 1962 she was assigned for a month to the returning in September 1963 from a second Sixth Fleet deploy 6fI-IISTOR Y ment, the Big E alternated periods in port with deployments at sea with the Second.Fleet until Feb. 8, 1964, when she once again returned to the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. I In October 1964, ENTERPRISE returned to Newport News Ship-building and Drydock Company for her first refueling and overhaul. She was ready for sea again the following Spring. The nuclear-powered surface force soon transferred to the U S Pacific Fleet. With Carrier Air Wing Nine reporting aboard in September,,the Big Ev joined the Seventh Fleet on Nov 21 , 1965, and became the first nuclear-powered warship to engage in combat. During the next six months, the Big E planes carried out bombing raids against the enemy military transport and supply areas bridges and coastal shipping in Vietnam. ENTERPRISE concluded her first combat cruise, arriving at her home port of Alameda, Calif., on June 21, 1966. ENTERPRISE again left the United States on Nov. 19 to rejoin the Seventh Fleet. Following a brief call at Pearl Harbor, she sailed for hersecond combat cruise in the Gulf of Tonkin. Air Wing Nine planes were again in the air over North Vietnam by Dec. 18, beginning six months of combat. . ' 1 , 1 ,N 21 ' ,, ' 1 1' 1 .1 1 , , , 1 Y 1 Y W gl Y 1- L l 1 's . . w . f M .. I I l ' 1 I Y I 1 1 I 4 an - L , - . 1 1 11 M N. , a N ' is . . ' 1 C i, 1 ' W 9 v 9 ' M , 1 1 1 . - . u . . 1 ' 1 1 . 7 . , . - a s H , we K, , , ,, ,. ,. A , ar- W., , ,1 i 1a2aul09-A., f ff 1.1 N-7,4 ,. 5 W' N ' 'N '5--0-ff man 'f ' gf 92,1 wif Zagj is-1 ' 4 3,352 off, W 94 P1130 5,1312 will lei? Wi moi iw' will mil mylll lllih well! MM . AM foniu lorula IW limi 011: .pl aiu e edeclll .mm Crm Salk elim: 1 sn nh Wm lfial lfllmi Villa! si.. W em! Wh Nw H lrllt lu v JM, Supmi Windy, Wu wr., lil 1, PM if lift His. . fdgk NR Y .x, 1 . lu. '