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LE ENTS HERE ' S WHAT WE DID 4 I) ntry 21 I 28 Fi 34 Away the I R.P. 52 HEPBURN 1EPBURN Ml Frigates are the eyes of the fleet, exclaimed English Admiral Lord Nelson in 1804. Over a century and a half later, these words still apply, and on November 11,1975 fleet e 1055-HEPBURN-continued in this proud tradition when she took in her lines and steered into the channel of San Diego Bay headed for Hawaii and points west. She v nning her fourth ex- tern Pacific depkv One of the first of the Navy ' s ( lass of destro HEPBURN was commissioned in and designed to incorporate an impre ay of recent te h- gical developments through- out the ship. Her 438-foot 4200-ton hull driven by two 1200--pound high performance s. I let c i ew of 240 men and 20 as armed with a rapid-fire inc h gun mount, an anti- ket (ASROC) toi pedo tubes, and a ght surface-to-air mis- A shipborne LAMPS helic opter, nic knamed Maggie, and a de il of pilots and rew - men from HSL-33 augmented HEPBURN ' S own capabilities with a irm. All hands had the past six finish preparations for the n and a half month and on that mlier all systems HEPBURN ' S first slop was Pearl or, I lawaii, from whi h she ■ . i while c on- SR X and tor- pedo firings. Midway Island was next and gave the crew an op- portunity to meet a gooney bird. The long transit continued with drills, gun shoots, and intership exercises with USS GRAY (FF-1054). A day to remember occurred on the eighth of December when HEPBURN stopped her engines in a quiet cove of the San Bernadino Strait and passed Swim Call. A dive into 85 degree clear blue watei and a flight deck picnic made the day for many a once-in-a-lifetime Heat. The U.S. Naval Station at Subic Bay, Republic of the Phillipines - HEPBURN ' S home away from home-was her next port of call. But only a few days of voyage repairs were in store. HEPBURN had orders to steam North for Kaoh- siung, Taiwan and an exercise i ailed Sharkhunt with the Republic of China Navy. She returned to Subic Bay just in time- to elebrate Christmas and gear up for a most chalh assignment. I he task was, of course, an Indian Ocean excursion. HEPBURN was hosen as one ol a fon e of four ships to circumnavigate the Indian Ocean and show the flag around two i ontinents. I Indei wa the morning of January tenth, Task ip 75.1 steamed Southwesl through the ' south ( hina Sea, skirt- ed along the c oast of Vietnam, and swung north past Singapore gh the Straits of Mala i a
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HMS MONTAUK (P1055) STEAMS PAST HER AMERICAN SISTER HEPBURN (FF HARBOR. crew a few days of liberty before HEPBURN rendezvoused with a nuclear submarine for three days of intense ASVV. 1055) IN HONG KONG What followed was a whirlwind of amazing foreign ports and strange sights. HEPBURN visited the cities of Georgetown, Malaysia; Karachi, Pakistan, Mombasa, Kenya; and St. Denis on the French Island of Reunion before returning to Sin- gapore and Subic Bay in mid- March. During this cruise HEPBURN collected valuable oceanographic and intelligence data, and she also cleansed her holds of scores of slimy poliwogs. A tender availability in Subic separ- ated her from her next assignment. Early in April HEPBURN returned to sea, this time to escort the aircraft carrier MIDWAY on operations off the Eastern coast of South Korea. Chinhae, a major Navy base near the Port of Pusan, afforded the An engineering casualty diver feci HEPBURN from a planned visit to Hong Kong and she returned to Subic Bay for repairs. Underway again the second week in May HEPBURN joined elements of the Seventh Fleet in more ASW opera- tions off the Luzon Coast and was rewarded with a schedule change and six days R and R in Hong Kong. Typhoons Olga and Pamela awaited HEPBURN when she left. Storm evasion took precedence, and end- less days of violent pitching and shaking remained before she could enter Subic for one more availabili- ty before her home trip. During Olga LAMPS flew to the scene of a wrecked Philipino freighter and supplied the battered crew with provisions until help arrived. At exactly 1630 on June sixth HEPBURN got underway from Subic her last time. The transit to Hawaii and fuel stops in Guam and Midway were unevenful. In Pearl she welcomed twenty-four Tigers -friends and relatives of crewmembers whc had flown out to meet the ship for the trip home. Arrival came on the morning of June 26. The crowds were waiting, a band was playing, and an enjoy- able cruise was climaxed with a wonderful ending.
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