Charles R Ware (DD 865) - Naval Cruise Book

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This, then, was the overall story of a cruise: LANTMIDTRARON-64...the ships, the ports, the fun, the work. But every general story has its smaller, more personal stories. ..and this is the story of the part played by our ship and the men who sailed with her...

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CAPT C. H. BUTT, USN Commander, Destroyer Division 162 Captain Cyrus H. BUTT, USN, was born in Vaiden, Mississippi, on February 25, 1921. Before entering the United States Naval Academy with the class of 1944, Captain Butt attended Holmes Junior College in Goodman, Mississippi, for two years. He was graduated from the Naval Academy on June 9, 1943, and was awarded a Bachelor of Science Degree and commissioned Ensign, U. S. Navy. He received orders to the USS DAVIS (DD-3951 and served as Torpedo and Fire Con- trol Officer and Gunnery Officer during this tour. During World War II, Captain Butt saw action in the Atlantic and South Atlantic and took part in the Normandy Campaign. Upon decommission of the DAVIS In October 1945, he attended the Gunnery Officers Ordnance School, Washington, D. C. Upon the commissioning of the USS WfTEK (DD-848) in April 1946, he served 20 months as her Gunnery Officer and Ordnance Technical Officer operating with the Development Forces Atlantic. Captain Butt first reported aboard the USS FISKE, then (DD-842), in De- cember 1947, and served as Gunnery Officer and Executive Officer. During this tour the FISKE operated in the Second and Sixth Fleets and earned her first and second Battle Efficiency Awards and the coveted Marjorie Sterret Award for Gun- nery Excellence. After detachment from the FISKE in July 1949, he served on the staff of Commander Destroyer Squadron Eighteen on board USS J. P. KENNEDY (DD-850. In August 1950, he returned to the U. S. Naval Academy as an instructor in the Department of Seamanship and Navigation. In 1951, Captain Butt received orders to the U. S. Naval Post Graduate School, Annapolis, Maryland, and Mon- terey, California, in ordnance engineering and in June 1953, received his Bache- lor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He continued his post graduate work at Stanford University and Purdue University and was awarded his Master of Science in Industrial Engineering by Purdue University. Captain Butt returned to sea in July 1954, and served on board the USS BROWNSON DD-868 as Executive Of- ficer. During this tour, the BROWNSON deployed to the Western Pacific and com- pleted an around the world cruise, earning her first Battle Efficiency Award. Captain Butt was again ordered to staff duty, this time on the staff of Commander Battle- ship Cruiser Force, U. S. Atlantic Fleet, on board the USS IOWA BB-61 and USS NORTHAMPTON (Ci.C-1). In August 1957, he became Ordnance Planning Officer at the U. S. Naval Weapons Station, Yorlrtown, Virginia. In January 1960, he grad- uated from the Armed Forces Staff College at Norfolk, Virginia. Before assuming command of the FISKE, Captain Butt served a year in the pre-commlttionlng detail of the nuclear powered guided missile cruiser USS LONG BEACH |CG(N)-9) and upon commissioning in September 1961, served as her Weapons Officer. He re- turned to the USS FISKE for a second tour and on April 23, 1962, relieved as Com- manding Officer. During this tour the FISKE participated In the Cuban emergency, a Mediterranean and Middle East deployment and Second Fleet operations out of Mayport winning the Battle Efficiency Award, the Weapons E , the CRUDES- LANT Anti Air Warfare Trophy and was COMCRUDESLANTS ' nominee for the Ar- leigh Burke Fleet Trophy in 1963. Captain Butt was relieved on March 2, 1964, after taking the FISKE into the New York Naval Shipyard for FRAM I conversion. On March 28, 1964, Captain Butt assumed command of Destroyer Division One Six Two and embarked aboard the flagship USS CHARLES R. WARE DD-865 Cap- tain Butt is married to the former Frances Duncan of Jacksonville, Florida. They have five sons and reside at 1635 Samontee Road in Arlingwood.