Ingraham (DD 694) - Naval Cruise Book

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I I Mgmt N12 'xr Q 1 'Sl .L ks,-. . . i Q . V l fa t 1 A -.rr 'J ff. ' ', L Y, tem, . ,A , -we V ' f'?.i ' -ae.. it , .r ar' it ICU!-' l WHS in li itrolS i Gul. rilcff lurilll lkalf filill ecki 950'S rrhflf emlifl -Q-'-'r.'re-'w , Q: .Ff- In the summer of 1963, INGRAHAM hosted a group of midshipmen on an Atlantic cruise to Nova Scotia, Bermuda, and New York City. She deployed in October with the carrier ESSEX for a variety of countries including Spain, Italy, Malta, Saudi-Arabia, East Africa, Aden and Pakistan. INGRAHAM then took part in HSpringboard , an annual training exercise held at San Juan, Puerto Rico. While there she celebrated her twentieth birthday, making her one of the Navy's oldest, continually active ships. She spent the next few months in brief Atlantic ASW operations and in September deployed with the carrier WASP to participate in the large scale NATO exercises HTeamwork and HSteel Pike I . She visited Valencia, Rota, Palma, Marseilles, and Toulon while in the Mediterranean. After returning from the Mediterranean, INGRAHAM spent several months in Boston for a yard overhaul. Spring and summer of 1965 saw her in refresher training in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as well as various operations in the Western Atlantic. She hosted two groups of midshipmen for the summer months. In September INGRAHAM embarked on her first combat tour since the end of World War II. With her sister ships of Destroyer Squadron 24, she became the first Atlantic Fleet destroyer to engage in actual fire with the Viet Cong. The four month combat tour in the Vietnamese theater saw her participating in numerous gunfire support missions where over 2000 rounds of five inch ammunition were hurled at the enemy. Other duties included life- guarding for the carriers TICONDEROGA and HANCOCK along with several surveillance missions. She returned to Newport in April 1966 to an exceptional homecoming after one of the most unique and meaningful missions in her career. Ports visited on the around the world cruise included the Panama Canal, Hawaii, Okinawa, the Phil- Fppines, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, Saudi Arabia, the Suez Canal, Italy, Spain and the Azores.

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.4 w al .i . wgj fax . ,!. ,fr 145, .-j, - 'Zig '. l The third ship to be named in honor of Captain Duncan Nathaniel Ingraham, the USS INGRAHAM CDD-694723 built by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearney, New Jersey. She was commissioned Ofl IS March 1944 and was sent directly to the Western Pacific for anti-submarine patrol and escort duty- He' pam soon found INGRAHAM in the midst of battle. I H First, she challenged and sank a Japanese cargo ship off the coast of Mindoro. Later, during the Llflggiyefl QU landings in early 1945, she conducted shore bombardment and screening patrols. She then participated in strikes on Iwo Jima and the Japanese homeland. . in May 1945, enroute to Okinawa with five other ships, INGRAHAM encountered over fifty enemy Dlalles- Qunng the course of action, two destroyers were hit and sunk and scores of enemy planes shot down. Five Kamlkffii planes attacked INCRAHAM in coordinated suicide dives, four of which she successfully shot down. The fl crashed her port side killing 15 men and wounding 36. With only one of her guns operative and her main decka few feet above water, she limped into port for repairs. ,S INGRAHAM rejoined the Pacific Fleet in 1946 and took part in the Bikini Atoll atom bomb tests. In the 1950 she joined the Atlantic Fleet for ASW deployments with NATO and CENTO forces. 9 In 1962 she completed the Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization program and went to the Mediterranean Whe' she visited Naples, Barcelona,'Nlenton, Palermo, Cannes, and V l ' ' tembe' Q a encia. On her return to the U.S. in Sep she participated in the orbital flight of Sigma Seven and the Cuban blockade. ,. .fr

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Ill .,nl ' -so-fi COMMANDER STANLEY S. FINE, USN Hammrzrzdiug 0 finer Commander Stanley S. Fine, born September 26, 1927, in New York City, attended New York University for one year. He then served in the regular Navy as a radar technician seaman for a short period and enter- ed the U.S. Naval Academy in 1945. After being commissioned in 1949 Commander Fine served aboard the USS MANCHESTER CCL-83l in the Western Pacific until 1951 when he attended the Navy's CIC school at Glenview, Illinois. He then returned to the Western Pacific and served as Engineer Officer aboard the USS BRADFORD IDD-545l from 1952 to 1954. In 1954 Commander Fine assumed command of the USS HAWK tMSCiOl17l operating from Charleston, South Carolina, and from 1956 to 1959 he served in the POLARIS program at the Navy Bureau of Ordnance. Upon returning to sea Commander Fine was ordered on as Executive Officer of the USS JOHNSTON iDD-8211 and participated in two Mediterranean and one Northern European deployments. In the fall of 1961, returning to the Pacific Fleet, he became Commanding Officer of the USS LOWE CDER-3259 with additional duty as Commander of Escort Division 33. In 1963 Commander Fine returned to shore duty for a tour under instruction in the Doctoral Program at Harvard University's Graduate School of Business. After completing all of his academic requirements at Harvard, Commander Fine assumed command of the USS INGRAHAM CDD-694l in late October 1965 at Midway Island while the Newport-based destroyer was deployed to the Paqifig, Commander Fine is married to the former Eleanore Baker of Charleston, South Carolina. They have twO children and reside in Newport, Rhode Island.