Fox (CG 33) - Naval Cruise Book

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USS FOX QCG-335, a Josephus Daniels class guided missile cruiser, was launched on November 21, 1964, at Todd Shipyard in San Pedro, California. The ship was commissioned at Long Beach Naval Shipyard on May 28, 1966 and is assigned to the U.S. Pacific Fleet. USS FOX is in Cruiser Destroyer Group Three. FOX is the third naval vessel to be named after Gustavas Vasa Fox, President l.incoln's Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the Civil War. Through Secretary Fox's encouragement, the Navy was committed to the use of lronsides , and he was responsible for having naval engineering added to the curriculum at the U.S. Naval Academy. The first vessel to be named after Secretary Fox was torpedo boat 13, commissioned in July 1899. It served as an experimental vessel until decommissioned in 1916. The second vessel to be named after the Secretary was the destroyer FOX lDD-2341, commissioned in May 1920. It served the Navy faithfully for 25 years from Constantinople to Dutch Harbor. The current FOX is one of the Navy's most modern and complex warships. She is 547 feet long, 55 feet wide, and has a full load displacement of 7,900 tons. Her speed is in excess of 30 knots. Armament includes anti-submarine QASROCQ and anti-war CTERRIERJ guided missiles. FOX was the first ship in the Pacific Fleet with the capability of launching both missile types from the same launcher system. The dual-purpose launcher increases the effectiveness of the ASROC missile by providing increased stowage capability and a protected magazine. The missile systems onboard FOX can automatically locate, track, and engage enemy aircraft at extremely long distances. With the help of computer techniques they can destroy the enemy before he can get within range of a carrier task force that FOX is designed to protect. The ship is further equipped with two quadruple-oannister HARPOON surface-to-surface missile launchers, a five inch 54 caliber gun, two MK 32 torpedo tubes, and Vulcan Phalanx fClose in Weapon Systeml. Detection equipment includes the ANISQS-2BX Super Sonar , the ANISPS-48 radar, a three dimension, height-finding air search, computer controlled radar, and OUTBOARD, a sophisticated electronic warfare system. She is also equipped with the Naval Tactical Data System CNTDSJ for high speed computer processing and dissemination of tactical information. FOX has been awarded the Meritorious Unit Citation for service in waters off North Vietnam from 12 July to 13 November 1967, the Battle E Ribbon lwith three starsl, the Navy Expeditionary Medal for services in the Indian Ocean!Persian Gulf from 30 October 1980 to 10 March 1981, the National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal lwith two starsl, Humanitarian Service Medal lwith one starl, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon and the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal. FOX is Manned by a crew of 450 men and 33 officers.

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Gmiiwul F Born in Saugus, Massachussetts, on June 13, 1821, Gustavas Fox entered the Navy as a midshipman in 1838. He served in cruising warships, including Commodore Perry's squadron during the Mexican War, the Coast Survey, and finally commanded US Mail steamers plying the Atlantic Coastal routes. Besigning from the Navy in 1856, he entered business at Lowell, Massachusetts. At the onset of the Civil War, he volunteered for service and received a temporary appointment as a Lieutenant in the Navy. In April 1861, he was dispatched in the steamer BALTIC to relieve Fort Sumter. Before he could land his embarked troops, the confederate bombardments began, and after the surrender of the fort, he could only transport the remnants of Major Anderson's command backhto New York. ' He was appointed Chief Clerk of the Navy in 1861 and, at President LincoIn's insistence, the office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy was created for him by congressional action in August of the same year. Fox was a forceful, outspoken individual with considerable experience in ocean going steamships and he soon gained Lincoln's confidence. By sheer force of personality, he rose to a dominant position in the direction of naval affairs within the Navy Department. Similarly, his influence in government circles afforded him a major role in the tactical as well as strategic direction of naval aspects of the Union War effort. I Fox resigned his position in 1866 to represent the President on a special mission to Russia. He then returned to business in Lowell, Massachusetts, residing there until his death on October 29, 1883. l l l l i l