Galveston (CLG 3) - Naval Cruise Book

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1,000 officers and men the opportunity to contrast the rehcs of old Greece with modern downtown Athens; to enjoy the sun and sand of the French Riviera at Villefranche; or to sightsee in Barcelona, Spain. Galvestonians mingled with tourists from almost every Western European country while they were in Palma, Mallorca, and they also toured the historical island of Malta. Naples and Taranto were the Italian ports on GAL- VESTON ' S itinerary, and many crewmembers took advantage of Naples ' proximity to Rome by visiting the Eternal City.

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- ,■, • ' . ? I 1 fl P ' :?!fc: USS GALVESTON (CLG3) is something of a rarity in the Pacific Fleet--the guided missile Hght cruiser has spent ahnost as much time in Atlantic and Mediterranean waters as she has in the Western Pacific since moving to San Diego in 1962. The cruiser that just can ' t stay away from the Atlantic returned November 9, 1969, from her second tour with the U.S. Si.xth Fleet in the Mediterranean. In her return from the Atlantic, she transitted the Panama Canal for the fifth time since she was commissioned in 1958 at Philadelphia. It was a bright, clear spring morning in San Diego on April 9, just over two months from the day she returned from an abbreviated WESTPAC cruise, when (;. ' FVESTON took in all lines and got underway for the first leg of her journey to the Mediterranean and the second part of a two-ocean cruise. After transitting the Panama Canal the ship paid a weekend visit to her namesake city, Galveston, Te.xas, then stopped briefly in Norfolk, Virginia, to embark Commander Cruiser Destroyer Motilla Eight and his staff. The ship served as flagship for the flotilla and Task Group 60.2 during her stay in the Mediterranean. GALVESTON served as another kind of flag- ship, too. Designated the official Mediterra- nean flagship of San Diego ' s 2()0th anniver- sary celebration, she displayed the yellow and orange flag of the city ' s bicentennial on her quarterdeck in every port she visited. Special plaques, combining GALVESTON ' s seal with the San Diego 2()0th crest, were presented to the mayors of American and Spanish cities GALVESTON visited. While on loan to the Si.xth Meet in the Mediterranean, GALVESTON visited ports in six countries giving her crew of about

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The third cruiser USS GAL VESTON (left) is the first of a new fleet of Talos-missile- carrying ships to hit the high seas for the Navy. Shown at the Naval shipyard in Philadelphia, the sleek Texas beauty is armed with the deadly Talos missile. Con- struction of the new GALVESTON was suspended in 1946 and she was placed in reserve status the next year. The ship was not commissioned until May 1958. On March 24. 1905, the second USS GALVESTON was presented a silver service set (below) by her namesake city in Texas. This set was displayed on the ship until she was decommissioned in 1930. It was returned to the city upon decommissioning. Thirty years later, in January 1960, GALVESTON again received the silver service set when she visited the Texas port city as (CLG3).