Wainwright (CG 28) - Naval Cruise Book

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FIRST LIBERTY PORT - Wainwright rounds the bend into Gaeta, The USS Mac- Donough and USS Sellers also visited the town. Forrestal saw much underway time. The two ships did so much steaming together, that Forrestal began re- ferring to the two ships as the battle pair. At the beginning of August, WAINWRIGHT traveled to Mar- seilles, where tragedy struck the ship. STG3 Douglas Lundquist drowned in the waters off the Mar- seilles seawall. A memorial service was held for him on 15 August. WAINWRIGHT left Mar- seilles to participate in Exercise Seawind with Egyptian forces. This exercise took WAINWRIGHT to the eastern Med. A planned port vis- it to Haifa was cancelled and a visit to the Sicilian resort town of Toar- mina was scheduled for late August and early September. In Toarmina, the first MTT team boarded WAINWRIGHT to prepare her for an out-chop OPPE. Another stop in Naples in late September saw another IMAV, the DROPPING THE HOOK - Looking up at the bridge from the foc'sle as the anchor drops, during a berth shift in Naples. PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT - D k ANOT division mans the foc'sle during a towtiiig - BMI3EC1lilBdI?,wlb.1Z:?1'dEI?l:R kDOLLAR exercise with the USS MacDonough. touch up the numbers on th eg Seaman e ow. 6 f 1 2 5 1 Q Lf, Q ff W I I ff ' W ffm A M ,, V 1 ., f 0 ,, 'Y W0 , f 5 , W 4, zu, -,, Q ,W ,,,1..,f V I, W ., 2 ww! ' W ' V fc' '-12 1 ,, I Q xfwgffqwlg , ,, V W I ,,,, , , if wig , ' W7 'Q f W7 -Wi: f ,,,p,,, Wff', fiW.fW' fl I' 4 1 , ff f 4 Z ,fawwffwf Q , f , M . W f vw, f uf, w ,ff X Q f , my f' W i f' V fb VW ' 4 6 he r f 'V A 'Lfficf ,, 5 Z , , ' rwfzfk, ai ,iz 7 . I, V , za, 5 , 0 , fu! , rf ' ,Am , Q, f f M ff MW zmv Z 1 f, 4 af ,mr , M fi, f , W,g,, +,w,5, , , V W' , Q V4 ,P , , ,W Wi 4 f cf .fn f f . . 4' i f f i . My , if Q , W My M. , W f 1, ,a ff f 2 ' v 0 X X ,gy I W ywhl , 4 ,. V 4. , fa, r f Aww-,M , , , 4 f f f A .QQ fg ,, f 4 ,wif V f , X f- A 2 W f f Q , ' f i f ' 4 .., ny' fn, nf , , f MZWMX., f f ,ff V A- ,, ff If an fu, fi? My ,f f I , W, ww M Q A, Wwwf V f 11 if ,WWV,WW!fa,MZ VV ,W f, fy X, , , , , it fa ..f, , it ,,,, , V , ff f, U W, ffl W M. Ha, W .f ' f X X f W 1 f, av , f ,W ff 'f f f fl f !W,2gwwa7a,e2r'v':1- ff 'W f ,Q C 0 7019 V7 fi: f ,, Wm fy fy QW f Q WW iw W 'f M, Wi f f ' ff 0 'ff' ff fWff'9,7f'W6'f-7?f W. f f W ff 0, f M f X f, f W f ,,-'cmffm-,WWW ZW, Maw .WNW f ,, Wm 'U f QW, 'ff 'cf Y M20 , army. X QW WW! wwf ,fy ,fag .M ,,,, ,f VM.. .www fm, ZW W74ffW My V ff, W f 0 ,, 4 1 1 hem wr. ,fi W , W w wp M ,ff ff of f, 47 f Q ff new W-4.-fr. ' f f f , f fmt.: Wmwmywf, W W WMWW fa ' ,, Mfg, a , ,K an.. ' . s X 1 l X

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COMMENCIN G APPROACH - Wain- wright approaches USNS N eosho for re- fueling. WAINWRIGHT's crew spent a frantic four weeks getting ready. A massive hurry-up IMAV, an NTPI SCOPEHEAD - ENS Page has the SPS- 10 stare. Page rejoined Wainwright mid- way through the cruise. ANOTHER SATISFIED CUSTOMER- BM3 McWhorter signals the hovering helo to pull in yet another PAX transfer. 'K Yfggfgi-'ffl' X with only one N W A T in prepara- tion, and stores onload after stores onload were only a few of the many preparations made for the cruise. On 4 June at 0920, WAIN- WRIGHT got underway. Two days later, she rendezvoused with the USS Forrestal and the rest of the ships of the battle group for the tran- sit across the Atlantic. As the ships entered the Mediterranean, they re- ceived the news that they would stay in the Med. For the WAIN- WRIGHT this would be the eighth deployment to that sea. After a turnover with the outgo- ing battle group in Augusta Bay, Sic- ily, WAINWRIGHT sailed to Gaeta, Italy, a small resort town south of Rome. With the crews of the USS Sellers and USS Macdo- nough, WAINWRIGHT sailors toured Rome and the other Italian cities near Gaeta, as well as catching plenty of sun. After Gaeta came two weeks of underway time, including dual carri- er operations with the Forrestal and USS America. Then WAIN- WRIGHT and Forrestal arrived in Palma de Majorca, which many sail- ors likened to Nirvana. Ten days on the sun-drenched crowded beaches of Palma were fol- lowed by a fuel crunch and a quick transit to Naples, where WAIN- WRIGHT conducted an unschedu- led IMAV with the USS Vulcan. The fuel crunch would continue for several weeks, during which time only the WAINWRIGHT and the

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X l 'A v Q-il BATTLE PAIR - USS Forrestal follows her babysitter in the Ionian Sea. The Wainwright was often with Forrestal. ,f, wr qi, E, f 4 4. I re lg Jat J , 5 ,s ffi x 3 'ff ,-A O AND THEY SAID IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN - STGC Von Dollen and STG3 Wert paint the ship's slogan. JULY BIRTHDAY PARTY - MS1 Eckly, MSSN Dowdell, and MS2 Phillips display their work prior to the 4th of July party. initiation of four new Chief Petty Of- ficers, and a picnic held at Carney Park. WAINWRIGHT left Naples to transit up the Italian coast to Genoa, Where she spent the weekend and picked up another MTT team. She left Genoa for the eastern Meditter- anean to participate in Exercise Dis- play Determination with southern Nato forces. This exercise took WAINWRIGHT to the south coast of Turkey and the farthest point east during her deployment. During this exercise, she received a visit from two British MP's, who were given a red carpet tour of the ship. From the eastern Med, WAIN- WRIGHT began the long trip home, stopping again in Palma de Majorca on 20 October. Wainwright left the Mediter- ranean on 31 October, having met every commitment required of her. TOURING ROME - Many took advan- tage of Italian port calls to tour Rome, convenient to both Naples and Gaeta.