Barry (DD 933) - Naval Cruise Book

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EnTering The locks. LocomoTive mules hook up mm! On Wednesday, 5 OcToI3er, oTTer o shorT sTop in TrcinsiT oT GuonTonomo Boy, Cubo, BAPPY onchored in The horbor GT CPIS-IFUBAI., PANAMA, owoiTing enTronce To The PANAMA CANAL. On This cool ond overcosT morning OT 0900 BARRY weighed onchor ond wiTh PiloT l'luTchinson cibodrd begon The TronsiT of The concil. IT wcis o greoT Thrill ond new experience Tor mosT honds when we crossed The sill of The TirsT lock ond os The wa Ter begon To rise embarked on our oscenT To The PACIFIC! The Conol iTselT is o 1111 mile long lock ond lond Type conol wiTh locks in sequence from The ATlonTic :ls follows: GoTun, Pedro Miguel ond Miroflores locks. Ships up To The size oT on lowo closs BoTTIeship hove possed Through ond Tour desTroyers con be locked Through oT one Time if necessory. Also included in The Trip is mon mode fresh woTer GoTun I.cil4e ond Goillord cuT, corved ouT ol o mounToin. On The Pocific side of The Conol we moored oT The Podmon Novol SToTion oT Bolboo. The woTer begins To rise. l l All honds on deck. 4.4L

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Q0 Detached 5 February i966 to r 'd Wing in Binh Dinh province. D OV' 9 Support ICOV lST Air Cavalry's Operation lvlosher and White Remain on gunfire support duty until i6 February TQ66, Arrive Hang Kong i8 February. Spent all but 3oi previous 8O days at sea for operations. Depart l-long Kong 23 February l966. Reioin with other ships of Destroyer Squadron 24 in South China Sea on 26 February l966. Cross equator at lO50E. Longitude on 27 February l966, Arrive Renang, Maylaysia on l March l966, atter passage ot the Singapore and Malacca Straits. Depart next day for indian Ucean transit Cross lndian Ocean, arrive at COCHIN, india on 6 March l966: Vice Admiral John J. HYLAND bid us Sayonara as we detached from 7th tleet Arrive Aden, British South Arabian Rrotectorate, to retuel on i2 March l966. Lett same day tor Red Sea Transit. Transit Suez Canal on l6 lvlarch l966. Arrive Naples, italy on 20 March i966 for 3 day visit. Arrive Barcelona, Spain tor 3 day rest and recreation visit on 211 March l966. Arrive Gibraltar on 29 March 1966. Depart later same da a, Arrive Runta del Gada, Azores, l April 66. y Arrive Newport, Rhode island 8 April i966 after steaming nearly 50,000miies: b r ' 3 , u ning over million gallon s of fuel oil, consuming over a million and a halt gallons of fresh water, 7 tons of meat, 2 tons of butter, IO tons t bread d 6l ' ' A A T H o an ,OOO eggs, and tiring over,2,5OO roundS of 5 ammuntition in combat. BARRY also retueled, rearmed and replenisheclfatfiseo a total of 45 times while attached to SEVENTH FLE ET. .y W' ll' is will ' 4 I li T All 3 xi ,i W, . , 7 qml , . . ' . 1 , . - I - , , , f it-,l lN l to i , , g li. i' il ll 'll l . l V l f , 1 . ll f lllllllllll l l tml itil lil l

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The sea defail and piloT. Maximus Leader m ff X A , 1 The waTer fal s Message received from Commander in Chief Pacific l:leeT: Welcome To The Pacific Pleef. The exploifs of ATlanTic and Pacific l:leeT DesTroyer forces in peace and vvar have made a Tremendous conTribuTion To Naval hisTory and are a maTTer of meriTed pride. DesTroyermen have TradiTionally combined Their efforTs in facing any ThreaT To freedom. The splendid record esTablished by Aflanfic l:leeT DesTroyers deployed in The Pacific during The Korean ConflicT is buT one example of such muTual efforT and iT is TradiTionally expecfed ThaT BAPPY... will add srill furTher To This proud Tradifion as They bring Their needed supporf To The Pacific l:leeT. VADM Roy L. Johnson Gaillard cuT. Balboa