John McCain (DL 3) - Naval Cruise Book

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We see the smoke, Beasley Collins, go back and shave F R 0 M The Big Three SAN DIEGO Old smokey I A few weeks before our scheduled deporture ddte We were assured that We would make the WestPac cruise. On schedule, on ll April 1957, the U.S.S. IOHN S. MCCAIN CDL-3l in company with DesDiV 211, which also included the U.S.S. STODDARD CDD-566l, U.S.S. ISHER- WOOD KDD-52Ol, and the U.S.S. MULLANY CDD-5285, departed from the Naval Repair Facility at San Diego, leaving a flood of dependent tears behind. RAdrn Chester C. Wood, COMCRUDESPAC, and his band, play- ing from the U.S.S. DIXIE CAD-145, bid us Bon Voyage, as We slid out of San Diego Bay. The Dixie and Division www You sure you haven't forgotten anything? Bon Voyage

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HAWAII M' uf' ' After nearly a week of monotonous steaming, Diamond Head, the landmark of Hawaii appeared on the horizon. We knew that our cruise had, in fact, begun. For many of us this was the first trip to Hawaii, but all of us, old salt and neophyte alike, were intrigued by the many hued waters and the greeness of the vegetation. And then we passed the U.S.S. ABlZONA to port and those of us who wondered why we were there suddenly knew. The last line over at the Mike Docks, after a brief trip to the ammo piers, our thoughts turned to liberty. There was something here for all of us to enjoy, Waikiki Beach with its famous surf and outrigger canoes, the quaint shops along the Beach, the Blow Hole, a hollow opening in the coral which shoots water 15 to 20 feet into the air when the waves break under ity the Pali, a steep cliff that drops straight down to the green plain below, the scene of victory for King Kameha- meha, who conquered Oahu and drove the na- tives off the cliff to their deaths, the many pine- apple plantations and the legendary beauty of the island itself. But our stay in Hawaii was an all too short 17 hours on our outward bound leg of our WestPac cruise, and we were all wishing that we could have remained longer as we retraced our steps out of the channel and left Pearl Harbor on the l7th of April. 1 I If W 1 + H 'JQ , M 32, ,!MfK,Qf0' 4 uf .4 -' - ,,,ff,4ft.,--,V L :wr 1 'fi ai filmtv 1 U' 11 1 is Wm