Cony (DDE 508) - Naval Cruise Book

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,X 'r fi' . vi, Ii , .sa 1 - - , ,. I 0 555' '54 3 I . 'ff 1' ' I 1 Q if V I 'lvl f ' f N V typ.. ,,,.L, M 4 Y J . I .,V- X 6 F .1 5 5 X' Frank C. Dunham, Jr. COMMANDING OFFICER Commander F. C. DUNHAM, Ir., assumed command of the USS CONY CDDE 5085 on 8 August 1960. In addition to a rich back' ground of experience aboard destroyer-type ships CUSS C, P, CECIL, USS HAMBLETON. USS AULT, and USS CAMPP. Com- mander DUNHAM has served at the Naval Academy and has at- tended the General Line: School at Monterey and the Staff Line School. Prior to reporting to the CONY, Commander DUNHAM was a student at the Naval War College at Newport, R.I. Commander DUNHAM received his Navy Commission in 1943 after graduation from Harvard University and reported to the USS ARKANSAS KBB 337 of the Atlantic Fleet the same year. Following his tour of duty on the USS AULT, as Executive Officer, Commander DUNHAM was the Commanding Officer of the USS CAMP KDER 2515 from May 1956 until July 1957. Commander DUNHAM was horn in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on 26 February 1920, and is the son of RADM F.C. DUNHAM, Sr., USN, tRetiredJ of the Supply Corps. He is married to the former Doris Moore of Salisbury, Maryland, and has one son, Dale who is 9. N I John F. Drake, LIEUTENANT COMMANDER EXECUTIVE Orrlcsn Lieutenant Commander J ohn F. DRAKE, USN, Executive Officer of the CONY since 1 August 1959, has over 17 years naval experience in a variety of hillets afloat and ashore. He orginally enlisted in the U.S. Navy in July of 1943 and was commissioned ENSIGN on 5 J une 1946, after having attended Whitman College and the University of Washington under the Navy's V-12 and NROTC programs. From 1946 to 1952 SLCDR DRAKE serve.d in both Atlantic and Pacific in USS CHANDLER CDD 7171, USS FAIRVIEW KPCER- 8509, and USS FRASER CDM 241. He instructed in ASW and Emergency Shiphandling at Fleet Training Center Norfolk from 1952 to 1954, and commanded USS FORD COUNTY KLST 7721 in the Pacific from 1954- to 1956. In October 1956 het reported to duty in Norfolk as a member of the staff of the Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, serving in that capacity until 1959. LCDR DRAKE is a graduate of the Armed Forces Staff College f 25th Classl, and of the Navy's General Line School at Monterey, California. He is a native of Dedham. Massachusetts, and resides with his wife and their seven children at 8651 Devon St., Norfoltk, Virginia. ABOARD THE USS CONY QDDE 5033 - The destroyer USS CONY of anti-submarine Task Group ALFA is truly a sub killer and now displays ,a pair of chromium plated hedgehogs as dramatic evidence of this fact. On two different occasions CONY ASW teams have made direct strikes with plaster-loaded hedgehogs on the decks of A.tlantic Fleet submarines during training exercises. The hedgehogs recovered from the respective submarines have been chrome-plated and are now in use as quarterdeck markers in lieu of the usual chrome-plated cartridge cases to symbolize the CONY's primary mission of anti-submarine warfare. The first CONY hedgehog to hit the mark was on 16 March 1959 when the USS BALAO fSS 2855 was the target. A more recent CONY 'ihit' was made May 23 when one of two hedgehogs fired landed on the deck of the USS COBBLER QSS 3445. COBBLER discovered the hedgehog on surfacing and immediately dispatched a message to inform Captain! G. M. Sloniln, Commander Destroyer Squadron 28, and to ask who-dun-it. The mystery was quickly solved by a dispatch from the CONY's Commanding Officer, Commander B. E. Glendinning, who said that the CONY had done it, wryly adding .that Hthe new ASW officer didn't 'know that both projectiles were supposed to land on the COBBLER's deckf' The discovery prompted a subsequent dispatch from Commodore Slonim to Rear Admiral John E. Clark, Commander Anti-submarine Task Group ALFA, in which he recommended -that a best cowboy sharp shooter medal be struck for USS CONY who demonstrated outstanding ASW readiness hy her plaster loaded hedgehogs repos- ing peacefully but convincingly on the deck of the USS COBBLER on surfacing. The CONY dead-eyes also provided a pleasant send off for Columbia Broadcasting System representatives who were aboard COBBLER completing the filming of Task Group ALFA operations for the television program Twentieth Centuryv when the hedgehog hit the submerged submarine.

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