USS Enterprise (CVN 65) - Naval Cruise Book

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197S fCjOn . J participated with HMAS Stuart and the Royal Austra- lian Air Force in a two-day exercise, Beacon South. After Beacon South, the Big E proceeded to Singapore to participate in exercise Merlin VI. On its way home, Enterprise stopped off at Hong Kong and Subic Bay, evading a large storm in the South China Sea. On Oct. 12, the ship made a brief stop at Pearl Harbor to pick up 200 Tigers (fathers, brothers or sons of crewmembers) for the last week of the deployment. 1 !y y Three Mile Island accident, Soviet army invades Afghanistan, Khomeini ousts Shah of Iran, takes American embassy, hostages, Margaret Thatcher becomes first woman Prime Minister in Britain, SALT-2 arms limitation treaty signed, Military coup in El Salvador, Film: Apocalypse Now. IbfoU U.S. boycotts grain, Moscow Olympics over Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Iran hostage rescue attempt 1 y j Enterprise set sail again Jan. 9, but this time for Bremerton, Washington. For the next 30 months the ship underwent a compre- hensive overhaul at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, its first since being commissioned. 19S2 On February 1 1, the Big E departed Puget Sound Naval Shipyard like new. Enterprise had removed the distinct bee hive fixed radar dome on the island structure and undertook the largest habitability self-help program ever attempted by a ship. The crew had refurbished every berthing and head facility. This included installing 5,200 new modular berths, redesigning lounges, putting fails, Mt. St. Helens erupts, Global eradication of smallpox announced, Iraq invades Iran, begins eight-year war, John Lennon killed. 1 y J 1 Ronald Reagan becomes President, Iran hostages released, Reagan shot, Air traffic controllers strike, are fired, Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome identified, Israeli jets destroy Iraqi nuclear plant, Sandra Day O ' Connor first female Supreme Court Justice. in new lockers and improving the lighting i i r ventilation. On Sept. 1, Enterprise departe j Alameda for its 10th Western Pacific depk ' isesPaific ment. During the cruise, the Big E con- i iUkks, ducted exercises in the Sea of Japan and tv i y operated in the Northwest Pacific. 1 y J 3 New Years found Enterprise in transit from the Arabian Sea, with special guests on board — the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. On Jan. 20, the Big E set anchor in Fremantle, West Australia for a day port visit. In March, Enterprise partic pated in the combined exercise TEAM SPIRIT off the coast of South Korea and i tk taorises. inc] iflHtalFI ■ttoAhme ' ftp iyO C Equal Rights Amendment defeated, Unemployment highest in 40 years, Brezhnev dies, UN Conference ai Law of the Sea, Falklands War, Israeli troops invade Lebanon, First permanent artificial heart, Films: Ghandi, E.T. Extra-Terrestrial. iyO j Soviets shoot down Korean airliner, Shiite extremist bombs Marine barracks in Beirut, U.S. invades Grenad ' -•■,■ Ubc Soi Vis,

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ifhe explosions and fire killed 27 and injured 85. Eighteen is earlier, a fire almost exactly the same aboard USS Forrestal ' ' wliolaiijc ed 132 lives. he relatively low casualty rate was credited to the skill of prise ' s firefighters and damage control teams. As one com- f wasinapo er stated, ' They told me we had a good firefighting crew, but La.CMiiiiaaiijti i ' t know they were that good. lifter the fires were out and the smoke subsided, the two-inch : iiraafjaml flight deck had three major holes blown into it, as well as al minor ones. There was a 26-foot hole in elevator four, a : iiiieiMi ot hole near the landing signal officer ' s platform, and on the ■•JhgafiooilK ,af d s ide, across from elevator four, was a 25-foot hole. light hours after the holocaust started. Enterprise returned to - • ' icaifkiM] Harbor under its own power — its eight reactors intact and ibcfa. naged. tawertSaa vt tne P ear l Harbor Naval Shipyard were a host of yard work- knocked to the da siting to board the Big E to start repairs. Over 650 people, ng around the clock, restored charred bulkheads, replaced rerrae. ' Tlieani stee l sorted through the spaghetti of power cables and :i a;; ever seen | ilitated ventilation systems below the flight deck. •jiv inm hose in | ' refabricated sections of the flight deck, weighing up to 21,000 Is, were airlifted to Hawaii as well as 20 special steel weld- ' .:::. iwal. Its hard to I nolo the decks Hi M Mm ■. nil enterprise crewmembers worked alongside the yard force help- ith repairs, installing gear and cleaning spaces. )n March 5, Enterprise was operational again and after five rf sea trials, it departed for Yankee Station, its fourth Vietnam jwfe. , end. l ly 30, Enterprise sailed from Alameda 1; Bremerton Naval Shipyard for a six l overhaul. Enterprise returned to Alameda on May 20. Alameda. LEBepiseietM j£ ..-.;■ jjejattl Alameda on flfccsBbatdeplovma Enterprise returned to Alameda in February. In August, the Big E won Battle E and on Sept. 17, left for its th WESTPAC. (aaB U Gulf ofTonl ewlditctivedw s sped in Pans on 5 ai olvement in the njj.ilielastll -, tkiim i cood BattieE .. | --ess. YouKipiw O New Years found Enterprise in Bay where it had also spent Christmas. Subic on Jan. 7 to begin another sion into the Indian Ocean. Following a Indian Ocean cruise, Enterprise was upon to help in the evacuation of During Operation Frequent Wind, ft from the Big E flew 95 sorties. n rnments toppled in Portugal, Greece, jj j pia, Film: Chinatown. tO Saigon evacuated, Apollo and link up in space, first personal uter introduced, King Faisal murdered , 0 idi Arabia, Khmer Rouge terrorizes . .j KxJia, Civil war erupts in Lebanon resist r is in Ira 76 Vietnam united, Droughts in ly O July 30 Enterprise departed on its eighth WESTPAC. Highlighting this deploy- ment was the Big E ' s participation in Operation Kangaroo, a joint exercise with the Australian and New Zealand navies. Follow- ing the exercise, the ship visited Hobart, Tasmania Oct. 29 through Nov. 5. iy l On Jan. 15, Enterprise departed Subic Bay for the first all-nuclear-powered excursion into the Indian Ocean since 1964. The ship was joined by the guided missile cruisers Long Beach and Truxton and the submarine Tautog. The long deployment ended March 28, when Enterprise returned to Europe, Mao Tse-tung succeeded in China, Ozone layer depletion discovered, Earthquakes kill 780,000 worldwide, Book: Roots, Films: Taxi Driver, All the President ' s Men iy Carter elected President, pardons Vietnam draft dodgers, First flight of space shuttle Enterprise, Military coup in Pakistan, President Sadat visits Israel, ly O On April 4, Enterprise departed for its ninth Western Pacific Deployment. Soon after leaving port, the Big E participated in RIMPAC-78, a four-nation exercise involving 42 ships, 225 aircraft and nearly 22,000 men from the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. After visiting the Philippines in May, Enterprise rescued 13 Vietnamese refugees from a sinking sampan about 90 miles west of Luzon R.P. During the deployment, Enterprise also made a 33- day excursion into the Indian Ocean, making a port visit to Perth in August. After leaving Perth, Aug. 12, the ship Volcanos erupt in Japan, Italy and Hawaii, Film: Star Wars 1 y O Senator Hubert Humphrey dies, First test-tube baby born, Senate votes to turn Panama Canal over to Panama, Sandinistas fight guerrilla war in Nicaragua, First non-Italian pope in 456 years elected, Film: The Deer Hunter

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r.. - . Enterprise rendezvoused with Midway jt LEonprisedepi : ral Sea for FLEETEX 83- 1 in the west Pacific. Completing another deployment, Enterprise returned to gfefetfJipiiriQeda on April 28. Warn Pacific (k ctiKtlrBifF ■ssf ' iil I :£ F) lg .JalfcBi fcta Lr.T. Emerprise p» I ifeM Enterprise departed on its 1 1th 5rn Pacific deployment, May 30. During o :ployment, the Big E participated in xercises, including RIMPAC after port and FLEETEX just before ling to Alameda on Dec. 20. or- yU Enterprise remained in por t until undergoing an ambitious and highly it [sax OX.FW. -Ghandi. E.T i tfCorfcr ragua. 00 t L ' .S.u v m pact disk debuts, Drought, famine in J pia, Reagan announces Star Wars I Utive, U.S. backs Contra rebels in Film: Terms of Endearment. Marines withdraw from Beirut, ldine Ferraro chosen vice presidential ng mate, Explosion destroys third of ;t fleet SAMs, British coal miners , Government falls, riots sweep India, Amadeus. successful Ship ' s Restricted Availability (SRA) period. On May 2, the Big E left Alameda to operate in the waters off Northern California. Throughout the year, Enterprise went in and out of port conducting training until it was drydocked at Hunters Point for hull repairs. 19S6 1987 On Jan. 12, Enterprise departed Alameda for its 12th major deploy- ment. It reached Pearl Harbor, on Jan. 29. Enterprise was in the Philippines from Feb. 17-24. It then anchored in Singapore March 2 for a four-day port visit. On April 9, Vice President and Mrs. George Bush visited 1 SzOJ? Gorbachev becomes top Soviet, Gorbachev halts missile deployment to Europe, Walker spy ring uncovered, Terrorists seize plane to Rome, cruise ship Achille Lauro, Gramm-Rudman-Hollings bill passed, Earthquake in Mexico City kills 7,000, Israeli jets bomb PL.O. headquarters in Tunis. Film: Out of Africa. 19S6 Space Shuttle Challenger explodes, Duvalier, Marcos flee Haiti, Philippines, Terrorists bomb West German Enterprise while in the North Arabian Sea. The next day, Enterprise became the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal. The ship remained in the Mediterranean for six weeks, then returned from its seven month deploy- ment on Aug. 13. It visited Naples, May 8-16; Toulon, France, May 30 to June 9; and Perth, Australia, July 18-22. lyOO Enterprise departed for its 1 3th major overseas deployment Jan. 5. Three weeks later it rescued an injured crewman from a Japanese fishing boat. Enterprise visited Subic Bay, February 1-5, then disco, U.S. retaliates against Tripoli, Libya, Chernobyl disaster, Iran-Contra connection exposed, Phantom of the Opera premieres. Film: Platoon. 1 SrO I Black Tuesday plunges stock market, Gorbachev proposes reforms leading to glasnost, Oliver North testifies in Congress Iran-Contra hearings, Bangladesh devastated by floods, Short-, medium-range nuclear weapons banned in Europe, Mecca riots