Cotten (DD 669) - Naval Cruise Book

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1- l F' ill r .1 H R I I a I .- 1 ' 'O-x Li' f A if! A AL, 1 jf! . fy , A ri! Al'-X K Z ' A AA -33,-XA, A go Q , . 'l - -'I' ' Eff 1' sf n G .,.,- J ps f -ml all i' I',l If ff 4. .. . . f Q .T V U 6 g ' , G' V . A, a 43:-2 1, - A A A 2 W ' A - :T xf A 1 1 Jw X , , A,f M A E ---- NN Q 1 ' I 1 TA I, . A , Z K' THE WAY HOME Dependents, friends and those only mildly interested were confused by reports that we would arrive in Newport, R.I., U.S.A., Tuesday, Sunday, Monday, we would tie up at newly constructed Pier No. 1, would moor in the bay,would arrive in themorning, the evening, the afternoon. About 16 messages later we put our first line over at Pier No. 1. It was approximate- ly 1400 Monday 28 November 1955. We had our months of sea duty behind us for which some of us received the Occupation Ribbon. W The road back was a rough one. Our last three days were spent riding out a North Atlantic Storm. During the storm we pitched, we tossed, we stood on our beam end with a 51'roll. COTTEN was damaged - not serv- iously but enough to be felt by all hands. Ovens broke loose inthe galley and were adrift. The result: we had a boil 'd d' - h ' ' ' e inner t e kind you couldn t .buy. The big- gest hurt was no bread, we had 44 inches of water in the cracker locker so we had no crackers, either. Happily we had our Thanksgiving meal before the storm. The menu featured Turkey, trimmings and fuel oil. Everyone milled around topside at first, talking and wondering who would be waiting to greet us. As soon as the Special Sea Detail was set and our call letters were in the air, we fell in atAquarters to enter port. Then we just stood there - waiting, watching and feeling very excited. . . ik, As we steamed by familiar Castle Rock and around- Coddington Point we had many places and thingsAto rAe- member since last we were here. We'd been to six dif- ferent countries...could say Thank you in five dif- ferent languages.--, We were loaded with Italian lire drachmae, francs, pesetas, Turkish lira and shillings which we could not exchange for American green . We had sets of undress blues that could walk alone. White hats long overdue for the rag bag, enough sou- venirs to furnish a Sultan's palace and sea stories to tell our grandchildren in years to come. A In our crew we had new fathers who had not seen their offspring. Somewhere there on the beach brand new little girls and boys waited to meet their daddys for the first time. Pretty soon we began our approach and a couple Of tugs came out to help us. We could make them out nowr.. all the people on the pier and the Yo-Yo ...girlS III bright coats - some bundled against the weather..some standing with babies in their arms, others waving fran' tically...children running up and down the deck...parentS standing with searching looks on their faces. Everyone smiled. The brow went over. There was a mad, confused rush. When we saw those happy, smiling, wonderful American people, we knew we were home! Only customs inspection stood between us and leave and liberty.