DeHaven (DD 727) - Naval Cruise Book

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DE HAVEN spent the first months of 1964 in ASW training, gunnery exercises, task group operations and engineering drills with stops at Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, and Sasebo. All Polly- wogs were duly initiated into the Mysteries of the Deep as the ship crossed the Equator on its way to Australia in March. Her homeport was changed from Yokosuka to Long Beach. On Oc- tober 20 while steaming independently inthe San Diego Operating Areas, the crew spotted a pa- trol plane in distress. Proceeding at 25 knots, DE HAVEN arrived on the scene just minutes after the aircraft made an emergency landing and capsized. All nine crewmen were rescued and immediately whisked off the flight deck by rescue helicopter to their home base. Stateside life was not for DE HAVEN though, and by mid-1965 she was steaming in her old hunting grounds. On August 22, off the coast of Vietnam, she opened fire on enemy po- Leaving port for the war. sitions for the first time since the Korean War, From this time until her retirement to the re- serve fleet in 1971, DE HAVEN fired her guns, sometimes poking into the Saigon and Mekong Rivers, and acted as-plane guard and screen ship. Over 810 rounds of hostile fire were re- ceived on six different occasions but no damage was sustained by the ship. During these years, Electronic Countermeasures QECMb made up an increasingly important element of defense. DE HAVEN contributed on numerous occasions to this field as evidenced by the fifteen commenda- tions she has received. When the ship returned to Long Beach in September 1968, she termi- nated an absence of 834 days. DE HAVEN made two more cruises to WESTPAC, one in 1969-70 and the other in 1970- 71. The rest of this book documents the details of the 1970-71 deployment. I

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DE HAVEN's first crew practices on mockup of ship which was then under construction. On l February 1960, the ship entered a FRAM II QFleet Rehabilitation and Moderniza- tionb overhaul at San Francisco Naval Shipyard. After seven months in the shipyard DE HAVEN could hardly be recognized. She now sported the latest sonar and radar, a new bridge, ' new masts, and superstructure, plus a flight deck and helicopter hangar. t y V DE HAVEN received her first drone anti- submarine helicopter QDASHJ aboard l October 19603 a milestone in her long and eventful career. ' On the 15th of September 1962 theiship steamed towards Chinhae, Republic of Korea QROKJ for a week of indoctrination and opera- tions with units of the ROK Navy. January 1963 found DE HAVEN conducting operations with the carrier USS YORKTOWN. When spring came, the ship had completed Project 'Mercury' briefings and practice re- hearsals of capsule recovery. On Maya 9 DE HAVEN was on station off Okinawa in the emergency recovery area,fand on May3l7 As- tronaut Cooper .made his successful flight. Later that year the ship' participated in' ASW operations with the .Chinese Navy inthe Taiwan area. .. , -, , .1 3 N FW' m '4'i:El l4'ft 4If'A'Q ' 'LFC 4''rf-Sh,-.l6?'I.1:iJ1-'5,z'f'5jQ '2f1C'iJ5''fZ,.3'r5PE3:'.:7,F-:'75!:Q'.?22i'fQjLL ?33'fL1QTfA,?Q47lei3.- ',,'-'-TZ, IjQi-'.E.:,11- ' .:. 41, Tw'-rs-1: gg2.,'p:3'-,f--gf.-?,:.'g-ga v:uz1r f...f V ' Xxx . N. rp. ,I -3-L1 ,W W K ,-7 ha, ay- 1 . if-f',L,-5-,.95:g-U ,T-wry, .A ,,:.I51,1m.aj, Q .faqs-5 wg:--5 -:jig .MQ 1 -1- sajfwt,.,3.+.5?15,my,mz?- F5 ..11.g..:-:.. ww-an ,-.gg,,AJ3.,i V EA ,.,2i., -, -1 4, , if I 1 . f'W ?.U, ,g1fv',,f15g'ffmfI!17f55gfg? ' .4 f,1I1Gif'fii'I'?L'Z 5CS'?'7W1 Ff'5'Fl7'fff:Z'.Y'57b'f'iIii3:,iI'Z2gT 5 I-:f'Tff737..9?Jli:,1'fTfffT '7f.TlfiQTL? 4 'Z 'L S193 fi? , ' T ' ' ' ' ffffiilil-El'.T E1'5'.':'f

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H C. MORRIS, COMMANDING OFFICER Commander Morris was born in McCamey, Texas in 1930. He graduated from thetUniversity of Southern California and was commissioned an ensign in June 1952. He was ordered to duty aboard USS BADOENG STRAIT QCVA 1161 ulti- mately becoming the escort carrier's First Lieutenant. In April 1955 he was ordered to the destroyer USS WATTS QDD 5673 as Gunnery Of- ficer. He served on WATTS until June 1957, when he reported to the staff of the U.S. Fleet Sonar School, San Diego, California. In July 1959, he received orders as Execu- tive Officer on the radar picket destroyer es- cort USS FINCH QDER 3285. While on FINCH he made one cruise as Commanding Officer. In August 1961, CDR Morris was assigned to the Bureau of Naval Personnel, Washington, D.C. as Assistant Head, Military Programs Section for the Officer Candidate Education and Train- ing Branch, with principal duties inplanning and administration of Naval Academy and NROTC midshipman summer training activities afloat and shore. After commanding USS MILLS QDER 3839 from November 1964 to October 1966, CDR Morris served as Head, Surface Ordnance Sec- tion, Materiel Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, before reporting aboard DE HAVEN. His decorations include: Bronze Star Medal, Navy Commendation Medal, China Ser- vice Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Korean Service Medal, Antarctic Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Korean Presidential Unit Citation, and Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal. Commander Morris assumed command of DE HAVEN on 15 January 1970. He is married to the former Mary Margaret Baum of Pamona, California. They presently reside with their five children Deborah, Clay, Mark, Patricia and Me- lissa at Huntington Beach, California.