Canberra (CAG 2) - Naval Cruise Book

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1 2-3 4-5 6-7 8-9 10-11 12-13 14-15 16-17 18-27 28-39 40-49 50-51 52-59 60-75 76-79 84-85 82-97 98-99 100-183 184-187 188-189 190-191 INTRODUCTION TITLE PAGE SHIP'S HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS COMMANDING OFFICER'S BIOGRAPHY EXECUTIVE OFFICER'S BIOGRAPHY THE CRUISE OCTOBER 11,1966 .... HAWAII AND GUAM, M.I. THE PHILLIPIN-ES LIFE AT SEA HONG KONG KAOHSIUNG, FORMOSA UNDERWAY RERLENISHMENTS ON THE LINE CROSSING THE LINE HONORS TO HMAS CANBERRA AUSTRALIA I HOMECOMING SHIP'S COMPANY N WEAPO S DEPARTMENT OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT ' ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ' SUPPLY DEPARTMENT ' EXECUT VE DEPARTMENT ' HEALTH ANDDENTAL DEPARTMENT ' NAVIGAT ION DEPAR MENT '80- SPIRITUAL CAPTAIN'S CLOSING LETTER CREDITS ' 68 Table of Contents

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USS CANBERRA was launched onApriI 19, 1943, at Quincy, Massachusetts. At the special request of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who wished to commemorate His Maiesty's Australian S h i pCANBERRA which was lost in the first battle of Savo Island in 1942, 'she was christened USS CANBERRA by Lady Alice Dixon, wife of Sir Owen Dixon, Australian Minister to the United States. On October 14, 1944, the ship joined the fleet and in the eight months that followed, she participated in four campaigns in the Pacific Theater. Attacked by enemy aircraft off Formosa on October 13, CANBERRA was struck amidships on her starboard side by an aerial torpedo. The resulting explosion killed 23 members of her crew and flooded two firerooms and an engine room. Less than six years after being inactivated in July 1946, CANBERRA was selected with USS BOSTON for conversion as one of the Navy's new guided missile cruisers and received a Terrier Missile System. Con- version began in May 1952 and she was recommissioned at Philadelphia on June 15, 1956. She embarked President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the spring of 1957 for a trip to Bermuda where he met with British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan. Later that year, she was Fleet Review Flagship for Secretary of Defense Charles E.Wilson at the International Naval Review off Norfolk, Virginia. In the spring of 1958, CANBERRA ioined other units of the Atlantic Fleet in their annual deployments to the Mediterrean and North Atlantic with NATO forces. Later, CANBERRA received a great honor. She was designated flagship for the selection of the Unknown Soldier of World War II. In addition, she made a 50,000 mile world cruise in 196O. CANBERRA participated in the U.S. quarantine of Cuba in the Fall of 1962. While serving in the Mediterranean from February 6 until September 4, 1963, a ceremony was held in La Spezia, Italy, commemorating the 2Oth anniversary ofthe ship's original commissioning. In October 1963, CANBERRA 'sailed for theWest Coast to ioin the Pacific Fleet. After arriving in he' home port of San Diego, she ioined r units in fleet exercises prior to en- .ng the shipyard. , In April 1964, CANBERRA entered the Naval Shipyard at Long Beach, California, for four months. On January 5, 1965, the ship departed San Diego to begin a West- ern Pacific deployment. The six-month cruise saw CANBERRA perform a number of diverse rolls while operating with the SEVENTH Fleet in the critical Vietnam area. A highlight of this cruise was a period of 63 continuous days at sea during which she acted as a replacement for the Radar Control Station at DaNang. As a result of her highly effective deployment the crew was awarded the Armed Forces Expeditionary'Medal. In October, CANBERRA entered the Long Beach Naval Shipyard for two and one-half months. In February 1966, CANBERRA departed from San Diego after ten days notice enroute to the Far East for the second time in thirteen months. From February until June 1966, CAN- BERRA again ioined the SEVENTH Fleet for operations in the Vietnam area. During her deployment, CANBERRA concentrated on naval gunfire support forfriendly shore- based units. On .Iune 8, she returned to San Diego. On October 11, she set out once more to join SEVENTH Fleet ships sup- porting RVN and United States forces in Vietnam. From her arrival in October 1966 un- til she departed the line in April 1967, CANBERRA fired over 25,000 rounds of gun fire support. The cruiser participated in operations ranging from riding shotgun for a truck convoy to supporting the first full-scale landing in the Mekong Delta. CANBERRA provided naval gunfire support in the I, II, and IV Corps areas --- from the Mekong Delta' to the DMZ, spending 8806 of the time at sea. In February 1967 CANBERRA moved north, to ioin destroyers in OPERATION SEA DRAGON off North Vietnam. Her mission for 25 days was to deny the sea to North Vietnamese logistics craft and disrupt the Vietnamese supply network. During this period, she fired at military and sup ly targets inland and patrolled the North Vietnamese coastal waters until she left the line to visit Australia and other ports on her return to her home port of San Diego.

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