Charles P Cecil (DDR 835) - Naval Cruise Book

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York, New Yr..L Jew York — c t w -is acii V CECIL dun ' • ' o ' persona - 5 -- ' Tei] (j. . er perforsecc Tine rer the Sir:; - oo This success i? - . .ted.

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1 I ' WAS A COLD MORNING WHKN WE GOT L Di:KV V ON February 7 at 0830. Down Thimble Shoals Channel we went in a column of seven destroyers, passint; Cape Henry light to starboard, and then joined by CANBERRA, TIDEWATER, MARIAS, CHIKA KIA eund TRUCKEE. When formed up, we headed south to latitude 33 N to cross the Atlantic on a rhumfirline. Everyone was in good spirits and, even though the brown baggers wouldn ' t admit it. it was a rewlPfO get un I rway at last and leave the flails of Norfolk behind to search for new ones. - Bw Several days later the SHAN(iKI ITjfloinecrusirora Mayport 3 Uc I! ri 12 came down from Newport. This brought the group lo twenty ships and we were now Task Force 2: , The seas got progressively rougher, but when ue passed between th . ' Pillars { Hercul - ' nnleting the tran-it through the Straits of Gibraltar, the .Mediterranenn H ' . ared t etorr u-- like a i .1- : ik. CH. RLICS f. CECIL was now a unit of the --IxrH FLKFT . insignificant now, Lil not for vt ry long. Later ir. the evening l! the 17th, the incho;. ' ' iroup split and we proceed- : ' turnover :inrhorage in Majorcfi Early on the morning of the Iflih, wr ' anchored and by mid-afternoon, ik ' - l.id relievi. 1 the USS FVI. ' -V, of her .- I.XTH FLEET dutie. : in 1 f.fTr .,n-erway at 30 knots plane guardi:i ' f- r SH. NGRI LA. I Kmic how m.my times you heard it and r- ■ ,ow set the i ! ' .ne guard detail! ' ' Th- .-ngineers would turn out 2S knots on two boilers, CIC .. ui .u -r ,nd launch, -li- ' deck force would man uy at mid-sbips jQd the forward fan room, and the bridair iii-have to gues Ahich way the SH. NGRI L. was goic - Aft.r a rather uneventful .ADE.X we Itft pioset station to head for our first liberty port - Theoule. France. !. ;.in by trie drt v-as about thi.s to anyone. - the Straits t fn I ' -vnian Scti not .so tor others. Kinsey quickly establi.-hed r-. mayor - -pent eight days there during . - M ' -naoo, Nice, Cannes, Grasse, the --Mp. ?, s:ii; fir I ' on.DesIUv 262. During that period .it -r tt I MMnodore departed, he had many gooi, he . ; . of ' i.r- Fiats- To say the weather was -1 ' r- ■ ■ ' . lays of plane guarding for the of ' . ' Four. It was a struggle but lirtt th C.4 ' . Cl CiIL •started to realize that she lin - J an ■n.my, Theoule was a first time .on the o- !mself as ALUSNA in the Marc. Folo. an 1 Ir aich time tours were taken c-.er th ' ' K ' ;.:-.t-, ' and Golfe Juan. When we left T. ' ■ i- th ' ! t sea we had our first underway r- ' .inr; ia er things to say about CFC ' IL N ' ci . ' -i - F i miserable would be an. un i - t. -i. i;. .. i SHANGRI LA and a sag cj we came o-j -vit . high -.: j did not to he in - ; Knjoute to Greece, dcale N. TO air defen-- picket. Th? T?i?k Fon e ' - ' kt pfx ition LjirC ' U i t ,t her - ' u cycles aTTiong the runs . ' .ii i -; • There we- , [ •nt our day.- lo.iri CECIL sailed into t!ie norilit .. of . SW ' and type training. 1 n. remembers our full po ' .ver run horizon. Our first tender aval hi! ilitj to Pompeii Vesuviou . t ipri, .r iRISTOL. Captain Rozier maSg Na ipngress, and everyone agreed . ' -.:in 1 . . During the next as sea period, DDR SSp goinf un i rec d for bogey splashed in exercise Powerdrive and thine for 6 17 annual atiministrative in.specli n. After scori ' OHUDE L. .Nl for a day of conferenc - and lunchei ■. - Florence. ATter another week of .ADEX ' s we anc ored in Car The nwt at si period lasted eight day$ and then bikinis find blossomed out like flowers. Six days o When v. went to bca on 26 June we completed th co ... a very res; Ctable thilli. out of eight ships in DesVU-r. : i Frogres.s is our -jost impnr The Fourth ct July was Cej ' -Frated in ' 1 aormina 3» tdMfe spent three ijeautifui i Messina, T.»-k rbrce Here CECIL . a. ' . ' t t-■ ' or ne xnt.! ' ., ' t ' l in i ■- ' V-i!-: ■ IX ' ltl FLKF, J ' . We haa . ; N a; :r ichmae for 1 Ix Beer. .Next . i! ■mi .Athens and our night.%- tc ?r of the Aep- in within 40 r.iic . ' re detach a to jcin TF.IN i l ' ■ii ; (x Ll « IL R(| ' cca: c TF 239 tor a lar-je . -ri.w.ed .; il ei ' s number oi. c, CFCIL maintained this ■nd in Rhodes ridine ' i- i ' -.vas the port of Paereus. ■ :i Paereu . 1 r.cc Paereus, !. e l ardinelles for several days J : roceed to Naples. Everj ' one ic, j thf other ships far over the 11 1 1 K. ' T r I r. h [le. iJu wouF. tivo S May V. appearan i t gren; v. ith ■ ks. Many took side trips . it into San Remo with th at the International Coffee an unlimited supply of lire. ihc natlie of Station Quebec undoubtedly set a fleet ■■•er ' oing well when we arrived in Livorno Uent on that, we were vii itej y CONF .s still had time to go over n. Pisa an ; foi r r days of a little rest and much recre aion. wa ! feck to Golfe Juan on the h ' lviera, where the rj.tuous beach insurgance followed. ' ...ft tive year and ClI MiLKS P. CF(. II, finished product. er Mt. Etna ' s availabilitv. shadow. Having to iceep a date nujii the CASCADC-« ' 6W ' ft Naples and our . p Here CECIL ' S Softball team compiled much of its 22 aod 4 won - lost ' ■ : the Med. . fter being extended in Naple.- foc, additional weekeiu lji ed , .... . .rrhenian Sea past Monte Cristo and Elba to Livorno. This time .nly for three da ulThat was enough time for several visits to clubs and exchanges at Camp Darby. A i;iorith in pirr will make most ships stale, but it didn ' t take the CECIL long to get back to business when w€ joined the fleet again. On the 3rd of .August, having lost Mr. Ha.- ler to the Vietnamese, we tied up in .Messina for our third visit to the island of Sicily. . ' final outstandinL ' ADF,X performance and a new ALL. GASH fueling record were added to CECIL ' S list of Mediterranean accor. pL - hments. -August 19 was our outchop day in Pollensa Hay, aft r which we proceeded to Gibraltar at 25 knots to conduct a SHOPEX. This exercise expended our fund and on the morning of the 21st, we left Gibraltar in a heavy fog . Our job in the Mediterranean had been completeiij ?