William M Wood (DDR 715) - Naval Cruise Book

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HISTORY i Though built during wartime by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company Of KSHIHYQ New Jersey, the U.S.S. WILLIAM M. WOOD actually took no active part inWorldWar H. Her keel was laid November 2, 1944, and she was launched July 29, 1945, about a week before the atomic bomb's thunder echoed from Hiroshima., Operating out of Tsingtao, China, after a Caribbean shakedown cruise, she patrolled Chi- nese and Korean waters until February 1947. After a yard period, she joined Task Force 38 for a Pacific cruise which resulted in her win- ning the Navy E for battle efficiency. Upon her return to California, the WOOD was transferred to the Atlantic Fleet, was used as a DESLANT School ship, and took part in Fleet exercises. Shortly after the outbreak of the Korean con- flict, the WOOD set out on the first of eight Mediterrane ' ' an cruises., She returned in 1952, and then entered the Boston Naval Shipyard for conversion to DDR classification., On June 6, 1953, the eighth anniversary of D-Day, she was recornmissioned as a radar picket destroyer. And in November she swung her bow east for another trip to the Mediterranean. The Med was again her destination in 1954, on a special Mid- Shipman training cruise, and also in early 1955. The 1955 cruise found the WOOD at Volos, Greece, when a severe earthquake caused wide- spread damageg postponing departure, the ship hurriedly set up relief facilities and aideciglr Greeks to the extent of her capablhtyo Aftergter- haul, the WOOD again Set Off fo? me Me 1 She ranean in February: 19560 Refu1'n1ng?n.JuneQier, prepared for several months of thrainilzieesuez cises in the Atlantic, but the erupt1on0 duel.- crisis forced a quick return to the Me 26 in ranean, where She joined Task Force October 1956. In M,arch of 1957 the woon was Sifflitfgsfe accompany the U.S.S. CANBERRA' W1 and She dent Eisenhower abO3-Fd' to Bermuda, ondents carried a group of White House COITQSP as uests., . 'h iune of 1958 saw Gibraltar agaln Iockninhtie on the horizon, and the WOOD was bail the Mediterranean. Commencing pleasansebanon cruise was harshly interrupted by the crisis., - Back in the States, the WOOD Once majlfeedpfogr ticipated in Fleet exercises and Pregx Febru- still more duty in the Mediterranean, WILLIAM ary, 1959, this dufY Came, and me e to the M. wo OD embarked on its eighth JOUFH Zanean, iridescent blue waters of the Med1terT0u1ona Liberty call found her in Palma,Qannes' tagena, Palermo, Athens, NapleS, Messmfl' Cid with Palma, Naples, and Civifavecchlffo diStHI1Ce Civitavecchia and Gibraltar fading into eward, and time, in August the wo0DtufHed hom