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After a trip to the Caribbean, July 7 to August 12, 1952 she began her fifth overseas tour August 26. She was redesignated CVA-42 on October 1, 1952. Returning to Norfolk for the Christmas holidays, ROOSEVELT ended this cruise December 19, 1952. Following six months of upkeep and preparation FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT again turned eastward for the Mediterranean Sea on June 11, 1953. This was to be her sixth cruise, and her last as a straight deck carrier. After six months she returned to Norfolk December 3, 1953. Leaving Norfolk astern on January 7, 1954, she was enroute to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard via Cape Horn, since she could not be accommodated by the narrow Panama Canal. Making goodwill port calls at Montevideo and Rio de Janiero before rounding Cape Horn, she then visited Callau, Peru, and San Francisco on March 3, 1954, arriving at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on the 5th. She was decommissioned there April 23, 1954 for extensive modernization. The overhaul performed at Puget Sound was to make the FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT a first-rate carrier in the jet-age, capable of operating advanced high performance jet aircraft, including the A3D Skywarrior, the F4D Skyray, the F3H Demon, and the F8 Crusader. Included in the modernization was the installation of three steam catapults, an angled flight deck fone catapult being installed in the angled deckl, a hurricane bow, a deck edge elevator aft tNumber 31, and improvements in aircraft fueling capabilities. This extensive work would require two years to complete. Emerging from the shipyard with a completely new appearance FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT was recommis- sioned April 6, 1956. Arriving in San Francisco June 16, she loaded stores for her return voyage around Cape Horn to Mayport, Florida, her new homeport. Arriving there August 8, she began her return to the fleet by qualifying the pilots of Carrier Air Group 17 in carrier landings using the mirror system. Underway from Mayport October 25, 1956, she arrived in Norfolk on the 27th. On arrival, ROOSEVELT'v7as placed in a 72 hour notice status for deployment, because of the Suez crisis, and in fact found herself enroute to Portugal, November 7. Patroling in the eastern Atlantic she was prepared for contingencies which never came. With the crisis abated she returned to Norfolk December 9, 1956. Following this upkeep period in Norfolk she returned to Mayport February 9, 1957. Following an operating period off the coast of Florida, ROOSEVELT steamed North into the Gulf of Maine to evaluate the cold weather performance of catapults, aircraft, and carrier based equipment. During these tests, conducted from February 6 to March 3rd, she also fired a Regulus surface to surface missile from the flight deck. Rear Admiral Pirie, embarked in FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, was the task force commander for these exercises. Steaming south on March 21, 1957, her aircraft staged an aerial demonstration in the waters off Bermuda for President Eisenhower, who was embarked in the missile cruiser CANBERRA CAG-2. She celebrated Armed Forces Day on May 12 by taking part in the live telecast of the Wide Wide World while off Miami. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT entered the Norfolk Naval Shipyard May 19, 1957, for repairswhich were followed by operations in the Virginia Capes, before her return to Mayport June 8. Air Group Seventeen was embarked and Vim a, --1, , .w ' 'K-'fr f 1- fr gtg fff 2 s 5,1
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