Forrest Royal (DD 872) - Naval Cruise Book

 - Class of 1951

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REAR ADMIRAL FORREST B. ROYAL The FORREST ROYAL is named for a distinguished naval of- ficer, the late Rear Admiral Forrest Betton Royal, United States Navy. Admiral Royal was born in New York City on February 10, 1893. He was appointed to the United States Naval Academy in 1911 and graduated in June 1915. During his naval career, Admiral Royal carried out all of the duties that fall to a line officer of the Navy. He served on battleships, cruisers and destroyers, including service afloat during World War I. He had numerous tours of duty ashore in- cluding tours of duty in the Office of Naval Operations and the Bureau of Ordnance. He also completed a post graduate course of study in ordnance and attended the Naval War College. Just prior to World War II, he was a member of the Naval Mission to Brazil. At the beginning of the late war, Admiral Royal, then a Captain, was in command of the USS MILWAUKEE . He was appointed a Rear Admiral in March 1944 and ordered to the Pacific as Group Commander of Amphibious Forces. For his exceptionally meritorious services in this capacity in the assault operations against the enemy Japanese-held islands of Leyte and Luzon in the Philippines, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. He was awarded a Gold Star in lieu of a second Distingui shed Service Medal for his excep- tionally meritorious services in the amphibious operations against the Japanese in the Central and Southern Philippines, the Sulu Archipeligo and Borneo. In addition to the Distinguished Service Medal, Admiral Royal wore the following awards: — The Victory Medal with Atlantic Fleet Clsp for World War I. American Defense Service Medal. Asiatic-Pacific Area Campaign Medal and a Brazilian Decoration . Admiral Royal died in the Asiatic Area of coronary thrombosis on June 18, 1945. -4-



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HISTORY OF THE USS FORREST ROYAL (DD 872) The USS FORREST ROYAL was built by Bethlehem Steel, Shipbuilding Di- vision, Staten Island, New York. The keel for this new 2250-ton class de- stroyer was laid on 8 June 1945 and she was launched on 28 June 1946, spon- sored by Miss Katherine Knight Royal, daughter of Rear Admiral Forrest Benton Royal, U. S. Navy, in whose honor the ship was named. Admiral Royal died in the Asiatic Area of coronary thrombosis on 18 June 1945. He was posthu- mously awarded the Gold Star in lieu of a second Distinguished Service Medal for his exceptionally meritorious services in amphibious operations against the Japanese in the Central and Southern Philippines, the Sulu Archipeligo and Borneo . After the ship ' s presentation ceremony the ROYAL was moved to the U.S. Naval Shipyard at Brooklyn, New York, and commissioned there on 29 June 1946. After being fitted out she departed New York on 15 August 1946 for her shakedown cruise at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The ship returned to New York on 22 October 1946 for a post-shakedown availability and left again on 2 December 1946 for Guantanamo Bay. During this tour of duty the ROYAL conducted a series of special tests of a confidential nature for the Bureau of Ships. The tests were satisfactorily completed on 14 December 1946 and the ship returned to New York City, New York, for the Christmas holiday period. The ship left New York on 10 January 1947 and again proceeded, via Norfolk, to Guantanamo Bay, where she spent the following two months as escort for the aircraft carrier USS VALLEY FORGE, during that ship ' s shake- down cruise. . . The ROYAL departed Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 18 March 1947, and ar- rived in New York 22 March, remaining there until 21 April 1947. Upon leaving New York 21 April 1947 the ROYAL participated in shore bombardment exercises near Norfolk, Virginia, and in the Caribbean Area until her arrival on 15 June at Pensacola, Florida, where she operated for almost all of the next three years as escort and plane guard ship for aircraft carriers. Dur- ing these three years she departed Pensacola for several short periods. She underwent her first shipyard overhaul at Boston, Massachusetts, from 16 June 1948 to 2 September 1948 and then had ten days refresher trainingat Guantanamo Bay. She visited various Caribbean and Gulf Coast ports including Havana, -6-

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