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USSCOOK (APD-130) WEST PAC ' 63 CRUISE BOOK STAFF MACKEY. H. E.. RDl EDITOR ENS. A. S. WILLIAMS, ADVISOR ENS. L. D. THOMAS. BUSINESS MGR. HARDING. J. M., FN SALES RICKARD. A. R.. S0G2 PHOTO MARTIN, R. J.. HMl TYPIST WALDROP. 0. D.. E.M2 ART BARBER, G. M., IC3 ART HUNT. J. R.. YN2 WRITING WATSON, H. R., SA WRITING VOGE. T. .. FN GENERAL ASSISTANT
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tt THE SHIP The Cook was built in 1944 in tlu yards of the Defoe Shipbuilding Com- pany, Bay City. Michigan, and was named in honor of Lieutenant Andrew Fred Cook. Jr. and Sergeant Dallas Harry Cook, both of whom were killed in island campaigns in the Pacific and awarded the Navy Cross for their bravery and x ' lf-sacrifice. The Cook is 306 feet from jackstaff to flagstaff. She wa- lniill mi the liiill design of a destroyer escort and was originally DE-714 according to her blueprints. She is distinguished by her assault boat davits located on either side just aft oi licr stark. During peacetime she is manned l)y a crew of 150 men and 11 officers. For the job that has to be done, she has not a man to spare. Her |)riMic mission is the liigli speed trans|)ort of underwater demolition teams, raiding parties, and inall ti(iii|) iniil- In cncinN-hcld coastlines and the control f landing ( rail in aiii|)liilii(ui- lamlings. Secondaiy missions are anti-subinaiinc warlarc and gnnliic iip|iiirt. lin ln t()i includes a In id | arl in llic occupation of Japan as she was [] c first ]) )stwar American sliij) to cuter Hakodate Harbor. In January of 1947 she was formally placed in ina( live reserve status with the U.S. Pacific Reserve Fleet. Six and one half years later, in 19.S3. .she was Recommissioned and brought back into sei-vice as one of three .APD flagships on the West Coast. This conversion, completed at the famous Mare Island Shipbuilding Yard. San Francisco, enabled her to carry a staff of 1.5 troop officers and 69 troops. The Cook made a second trek to the Far East in llie later part of 195 1 ami participated in operation Passage to Freedom. a mass evacuation of some .300.000 Nortli Vietnamese people from communist control. The Third West Pac Cruise took place in the later months of 1957 and the fourth in 19.59. The Fifth West Pac Deployment was in the latter part of 1961 and early part of 1962. During this time Cook rescued 25 people from the SS Stanuac Sumatra after il had broken in half ulf the coast of Vietnam. This the Sixth West Pac Tour started laieh 26, 1963, and ended November 13. 1963.
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