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-5 . ' %r ptewb ' ' This is the story of one of the many cruises of DYESS, a hard fighting ship, a dependable ship, a lofty ship. It is the story of the men who ride her, who make her the ship she is, who bear her name proudly in the tradition of DYESS sailors of over two decades. This cruise book is dedicated to DYESS men .. .past, present, and future. May those who bear her name in years to come, who feel the waves beneath her keel, who take her to sea a gain and again, feel as we do the ultimate worth of a job well done.
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U. S. S. DYESS (DD-880) Care of Fleet Post OfRce New York, New York In reply refer lo: As long as men band together to sail the seas, each cruise will be different from those before. No amount of high level thinking, prodigious operations, orders or scheduled plans can shape the course of the sailor ' s life as much as the sands of time in the hands of the future. On 2 May 1967, DYESS sailed from Newport, Rhode Island with her Squadron Twelve sister ships for a normal peacetime, AV2 month Mediterranean deployment, two months of which would be spent making good -will stops in the Red Sea- Persian Gulf area. Yet this cruise was never to be. fiardly had DYESS reached Gibraltar when the swords of war started to rattle on the historic and disputed battle grounds between Israel and Egypt. From then on we regarded each step of the planned cruise with suspicion. On June 2nd we steamed south from a Turkisk port visit to transit the Suez Canal, not knowing if international tensions would permit our passage. June 3rd dawned clear and DYESS, still under orders to go through, entered the ancient harbor of Port Said to commence the transit. It was then that the full impact and extent of the Mid- East tensions became clear, as Egyptian guns trained on us at point blank range and the hostile citizens of Egypt turned out en masse to shout their defiance of a U. S. warship in their canal. The next 24 hours of the transit, though without open hostilities towards us, allowed little time for relaxation. We had to be ready for any type of incident at any time. At 1600 on the 4th of June DYESS left the canal in her wake and all aboard breathed a sigh of relief as we headed into the open waters of the Red Sea. What we did not know then was that 14 hours later the War would break out and DYESS would be sealed off from the Sixth Fleet by the closure of the Suez Canal. The planned cruise was to take on a whole new course and purpose. A naval ship, probably more than any other weapon of military service, is best able to adjust to the change from peace to war. We are the citizens of a complete city. We live beside our guns, thus the transition from liberty clothes to battle dress is easily and quickly made. Only the minds of those yet unfamiliar with the absolute conditions of wartime may need to be conditioned. On this cruise DYESS was manned by a 60% new crew, yet to a man this transition was easy and instantaneous. Without commotion or any outward sign this ship became fully ready to carry out any orders that might come; and they did. The rest you will find among these pages. We patrolled, stood ready to evacuate Americans as might be needed, took on supplies from strange ports, spent nearly two months at sea with no liberty ports and in every way executed each order in the decisive way that has kept our Navy ' ' second to none . Then we came home to Newport escorting the huge aircraft carrier FORRESTAL most of the way. A hard trip at best, and DYESS did it without incident in July, August and September, the stormiest time of the year. As you read this cruise book, you know that the men who make it possible can look back with pride to their sacrifices without complaint, to their flawless equipment performance, and to their determination to withstand the intense heat of the Persian Gulf. They can look back on a cruise that took them to three continents, three oceans, many seas; across the Equator twice, and around the Cape of Good Hope. These men have come home well deserving the pride and swagger of a U. S. destroyer sailor, for they have joined the ranks of those before who have served in the highest traditions of the Naval Service. F. C. Mead CDR USN Commanding Officer USS DYESS (DD-880)
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