Coontz (DLG 9) - Naval Cruise Book

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V.S. ship battered It ' s rough on a sailor Seas batter missile ship ALBANY, Sot About 360 Amer.con soilort -ith IS. 000 to (pcnd reached Albony rodoy in the US guided miifile Coonti oher their roughcit tea loyage fot o month. The soilofS were iS- f ' ' ' ' O ' ort vhrv wen oni Irom sued w ih their fort- (ihiiiii earned nightly pov yesterdoy »eeu ' » ' etneral OS ihe ship ploughed ' ■ ' ' • through heQv seos from Fremantle to Al- bony dollar Irigate day atlcrnoon. ir ktutlu Ihe , told I • »hlD fird Iron) ■ t onoor o(f Ihe eonsl JsDnn lour vrplcs tto Ihrli cvcdUiE cKcted over (tir boii upliihcd atalrut Welcome Marine dlivc arouni Clarrncc and sroui Hundrcd.i jlood oi I ' harl and cheered ■ Thf Cooolz 1 Stie lays nil spend 1 the 6 ■ AlbaPT has reBlly [)f«ad Iht welcome n»l. Exercise A t eclal dance -jnned by t [ to I kDll- rrimtie ' s I thrown open i officer went ar CMh tlje crew J Australtiin jui ■

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3lkZZ AMONG THE TERRIERS FOCAL POINT . . . Baibriliighil end Mitli McC. rbe shadow ol Ibe ship i Teii J Iber p ayed joit— including {Saints Come Sailing In ; IXDDAY the U.S. Navy guided-missile frigate Coontz berthed to the tune of ; When The Saints Come Marching In . . . ... after a quick, Jazzed-up version of J Waltzing Malilda. I , The ship ' s band (two guilari.sts and a clarinettist) went on to play Island in the f Sun— a tribule lo the brilliant sunshine and, I ttien offered a warning. I ' m sad to say I ' m on my way and won ' t be back for many a I day as a Fremantle Farewell sing I But It was all wasted— not one of WA ' s I attractive young girls was on hand lo gree! I them The only females on the wharf weie eilhcT eiy young. old, or accompanied by husbands For those mteresled here a.e (he facts. gills. Ihu facts: • The average age of the c e v is about 20. • Unmarried men make up 80 per cent of the crew — but more than 50 per cent of the officers are married. • This IS the first visit to Australia for 99 per cent of these U,S sailors. • All of the 329 men on board will have either .shore leave (for officers) or liberty tfor the crew) during their three day slay at Fremantle Austri(lian American cooperation was the kevnote fof the ship ' s berthing. Australian sailors fjom HMAS Leeuwin tied the ship ' s PERTH- FREMANTLE guiileii i ' ii . e. the focal po nt m the arviomenf of the trigate U S.S C -ont:. icaa ttlno the pf ' ' it of attract on for Iht ttea cadets frt li.M-A.S l.ceiiuin v lerday. Theu listen a crew 7nember of the ship explnina ilinrar- leiitlwn of thf mi - aile. The Coonf; n the ftrst ■ ii Mle- equipped ship to ■ Mif Fremantle. Her i.us- ailea con be filled with niirlear n heads and u againat either mr •il -{n I soy, who ' s that fella with the camero? osks Lieutenont Robert Freemon, hoving fun with a monocle He wos at a party given by the younger set of the Australian Annencan Associohon at the Dalkeith home of Mr and Mrs Jim Tunney for offjcers of the visiting U S destroyer Coontx, which IS in Albany this weekend Others in the group Lieutenont Tom Jomes (left), Chennie Porkes, of West Perth, Rosalind Holvorsen, of Applecfoss, Jon Wotson, of NedlarKJB, and Lieutenant Mort Swoll.

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ALBANY ' ' ann ' ' ROO STEAK TONIGHT J THE GREAT WHITE HUNTER SUNDAY VISITORS iiiil ' lz !, A QUIET SUNDAY AUSSIE SHOOTIN ' MATCH ALBANY BY AIR STIRLING TERRACE