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n BUILT BY NEW YORK SHIPBUILDING CORPORATION IN CAMDEN. NEW JERSEY, CONYNGHAM ' S KEEL WAS LAID ON THE WAYS 1 MAY 1961. JUST 383 DAYS LATER, ON 19 MAY 1962, MRS. MARY ALBERT, WIFE OF CONGRESSMAN ALBERT OF OKLAHOMA, CHRISTENED HER AND SHE SLID DOWN THE WAYS INTO THE ELEMENT IN WHICH SHE WAS DESTINED TO MAKE HER NAME. CONYNGHAM (DDG-I7) IS THE THIRD SHIP TO BEAR THIS PROUD NAME. FIRST WAS THE DD-58, A FOUR STACK DESTROYER WHICH SERVED WITH THE BRITISH FORCES ON CONVOY AND ANTISUB- MARINE DUTY DURING WORLD WAR I. THE SECOND SHIP WAS THE DD-371, WHICH SERVED WITH DISTINCTION IN THE PACIFIC THEATER DURING WORLD WAR II AND LATER WAS A PART OF THE TARGET FLEET USED IN THE BIKINI ATOLL ATOM BOMB TESTS IN 1948. THE THIRD, AND PRESENT SHIP, IS A SLEEK PROUD BEAUTY, 437 FEET LONG WITH A 4500 TON DISPLACEMENT. CONYNGHAM WAS COMMISSIONED 13 JULY 1963 AT U.S. NAVAL SHIPYARD, PHILADELPHIA, PENN- SYLVANIA. COMMANDER EDWIN P. SMITH JR., ASSUMING COMMAND. GUEST SPEAKER FOR THIS OCCASION WAS ADMIRAL J. L. HOLLOWAY, USN (RETIRED), GOVERNOR OF THE NAVAL HOME. THE COMMISSIONING CEREMONIES WERE ATTENDED BY MANY VISITING DIGNITARIES, AS WELL AS THE SHIP ' S SPONSOR, MRS. MARY ALBERT. LATE AUGUST SAW COMPLETION OF FITTING OUT ON SCHEDULE AND CONYNGHAM DEPARTED FOR YORKTOWN, VIRGINIA TO LOAD AMMUNITION, MISSILES, TORPEDOES AND THEN PROCEED TO HER HOMEPORT OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA. ON THE 26TH OF SEPTEMBER, CONYNGHAM UNDERWENT HER FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE INSPECTION, RECEIVING A GRADE OF OUTSTANDING, THE FIRST EVER GIVEN IN DESTROYER SQUADRON TWENTY- SIX. EARLY OCTOBER BROUGHT DEPLOYMENT TO THE JACKSONVI LLE-MAYPORT AREA FOR COMPLE- TION OF THE SHIP ' S QUALIFICATION TRIALS. MID-OCTOBER AND DEPLOYMENT TO THE CARIBBEAN AREA TO COMMENCE UNDERWAY TRAINING AT GUANTANAMO BAY WAS NEXT ON THE AGENDA. THOUGH THE TRAINING PERIOD WAS ABBREVIATED, PREVIOUS PREPARATIONS DURING PRECOM- MISSIONING AND FITTING OUT PAID BIG DIVIDENDS AS THE SHIP ATTAINED THE HIGHEST SCORE OF THE YEAR ON THE FINAL OPERATIONAL READINESS INSPECTION FOR A GUIDED MISSILE DE- STROYER. EARLY JANUARY 1964 SAW CONYNGHAM UNDERWAY TO YORKTOWN TO OFFLOAD ORDNANCE PRIOR TO ENTERING THE PHILADELPHIA NAVAL SHIPYARD. WITH THE POST SHAKEDOWN AVAILABILITY COMPLETED, CONYNGHAM WAS AGAIN UNDERWAY IN EARLY MARCH. FIRST STOP WAS YORKTOWN TO LOAD ORDNANCE, THEN IT WAS OFF TO THE CARIBBEAN FOR OPERATION SPRINGBOARD AND f LEET EXERCISES UNTIL LATE MARCH. ON HER RETURN TO NORFOLK, CONYNGHAM CONTINUED OPERATIONS WITH THE U.S. SECOND FLEET AND CONDUCTED VARIOUS EXERCISES DURING THE ANNUAL BATTLE EFFICIENCY COMPE TITION. AS A RESULT OF THE COORDINATED EFFORT DIS- PLAYED BY ALL HANDS IN CONYNGHAM, SHE WAS RECOMMENDED BY THE SQUADRON COMMANDER FOR THE BATTLE EFFICIENCY AWARD FOR FISCAL YEAR 1964 AND EACH OF HER DEPARTMENTS WAS THE LEADING CANDIDATE WITHIN THE SQUADRON FOR THE DEPARTMENTAL ' • E . ALL FIVE ' ■ E PLAQUES WERE AWARDED TO CONYNGHAM. RETURNING TO PORT. SHE MADE PREPARATIONS FOR THE FORTHCOMING DEPLOYMENT TO THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE UPCOMING POM CHECK. IN ADDITION, THE SQUADRON COMMANDER DIRECTED THAT THE SHIP RECEIVE AN ADMINISTRATIVE INSPECTION AT THE SAME TIME AS THE POM CHECK. AGAIN. AS IN THE PRECEDING YEAR, THE GRADE ASSIGNED WAS OUTSTANDING. ON 3 AUGUST. CONYNGHAM SET HER COURSE TOWARD NEW ADVENTURES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. AFTER PASSING THROUGH THE STRAITS OF GIBRALTAR. CONYNGHAM BECAME A MEMBER OF THE
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