Wilhouite (DER 397) - Naval Cruise Book

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WILHOITE was relieved on 26 July and proceeded to the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong for two weeks duty as station ship. In this new assignment, we carried out all the administrative duties of a small naval station, making berthing arrangements with the Royal Navy for US ships, and supplying mail, movies and numerous other services to units of the Seventh Fleet visiting this exotic port for R and R Despite our responsibilities as station ship, we found Hong Kong a welcome haven after forty days at sea and everyone discovered that there was ample time - if not always ample money-to enjoy the outstanding shop ping, restaurants and night life. On 12 August we were underway for Sasebo, Japan, were we were to undergo a thirteen day upkeep period. We accomplished a great deal of work in Sasebo, receiving repair assistance from the Ship Repair Department of the local shipyard as well as the repair ship, USS KLONDIKE. The industriousness and enthu- siasm of the Japanese shipyard workers gfeatly impressed everyone. They swarm- ed over the ship and accomplished a num ber of important jobs for us The twenty ninth of August found us enroute to Kaohsiung Taiwan to assume duties on the Taiwan Patrol Force a new assignment for WILHOITE We operated out of Kaohsiung and Keelung a busy port city on the northern coast of Taiwan for 29 days spending about half the time in port and the remainder patrolling the Taiwan Straits off the coast of Communist China. While in Taiwan, we had the Valuable experience of working with the Nationalist Navy on Anti-Submarine ,Warfare exercises We participated in a Joint training session at Tsoying, a large Chinese naval base out- side Kaohsiung, then joined two Chinese destroyer types for exercises at sea with the US submarine CHARR KAGSS-3285. On 29 September we departed Taiwan for Vietnam and another Market Time patrol. We spent an uneventful month patrolling the South Vietnamese coast in the vicinity of Qui Nhon. The only thing notable about the patrol was the weather, pcm ns -aw-.14-nrsyu-Inu v, mesu- . . I . Nl l . ' N . ' wa . I . 1, I T4 . ff' X , lr , X . , .. .l..,,....,.,,.,.,,,.i..- , . -Y H - +1 .- a Q Q ' U 41

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