Ludlow (DD 438) - Naval Cruise Book

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GENERAL DATA A Fighting 'Ship Is Hungry To SWG the reader some idea of wh few items are tamed below. at it takes to keep a ship of this type running, a 1 I -4 Five years consumption of : guiil O11 ' ------- 1 1,500,000 Gallons Mama 1 ' -------- 3 ,500 Gallons anla me -------- 5 ,400 Fathoms Marlin ------- 1 5,500 Pounds KIIIVCS ......,,,,, .---.-- I FOI'kS ....,,.., ----.-. 1 - Spoons ......, ---..--- 2 ,340 CUPS ------- - ...... 3,160 Bowls ........, ....-.-- 2 ,300 Scrapers ...,,.., .--,--, A 1,440 Brooms ......... --.-,,. 9 12 ' Swabs .............,, ,,,-.-, , 698 Scrubbers ............, ,,,,,,, , 405 Depth Charges .............. ,,,,,., 3 39 5 Ammunition ---------------- ........ 9 ,620 Rounds Q346 Tonsj 40 MM Ammunition ---.--.--- ....... . 17,450 Rounds 19.6 Tonsj 20 MM Ammunition .......... ....... . 33,600 Rounds Q8 Tgngj Candy ................................ ....... 2 84,000 Bars 42,000 Packages 1 21,600,000 72,000 Cakes Almost S2,000,000.00 Razor Blades ................ ........ Cigarettes ............ ........ Soap ..................... ....... . Monies Paid ..................................................... The crew has eaten one million six hundred thirty-seven thousand' pounds net of pro- visions at a cost of three hundred eighty eight thousand eight hundred dollars. The ship's. store has sold one hundred two thousand dollars worth of stock, consisting of such items as cigarettes, candy and toilet articles. '- ' ff' h served aboard the LUD- Seven hundred twenty-seven men and hfty six o icers ave LOW. She has had five Commanding Officers: Commander C. H. Bennett, USN, from h 1941 t 19 Se tember 1942' Commander L W Creighton, USN, from 19 Sep- 5 Marc o p , - - ' t P Cutler USNR from 8 February 1944 to tember 1942 to 8 February 19445 Lieutenan . , , 25 February 1944, Commander W. R. Barn es, USN, from 25 February 1944 to 28 Febru- ary 19455 Commander S. M. Barnes, USN, from 28 February 1945 to 26 February 19461 B U S N From 26 February 1946 to decommissioning. ' Lieutenant M. W. rown, . . .g , 0 . ' ' t widel scattered ports: 1941-- The LUDLOW S five Christmas days were spen in y ' H lf'ordur, Iceland, 1942-Casco Bay, Maine, 1943-Mers El Kebir, Algeria, 1944- va J Marseilles, France, 1945-San Francisco, California. 019

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4 Philippines and then steamed alone up through San Bernardino StrHifS, Passing 33939 and Corregidor close aboard, to Lingayen Gulf in Luzon. Here it was learned the ship would have a 6 da la over The Captain 31-ranged for us to put into llflanilzi. lfive days in Manila y. y di 11 handsi ot a good look at the terrible destruction of this fine ' t t 3 g ' .. . . Zigi? fiipeirfiifaigiinalinoney was everywhere and worthless. Philippine kids sold handfuls of it as souvenirs. , . The 17th of October saw us back in Lingayen from where we immediately put out with a convoy of TransDiv 62 for Hiro Wan, Japan. Hiro Wan is well into the Island Sea of Japan and only 10 miles from Hiroshima. Some of the officers went to Hiroshima and 'took photos of the atomic bomb devastation for all hands. Kure Naval Base' was a sham- bles as was the town of Kufe, Hifg Wan was not badly damaged except for its foundries. 'The native japs were notiantagonistic and were glad to sell all kinds of products Cmostly of paperj as souvenirs from the huge stock gathered by the Army. Hiro Wan and the Inland Sea were left astern as the LUDLOW put out for the Aleutian Islands. Enroute she stopped at Nagoya, japan for fuel. November 9th, she nosed up to the dock at Sweeper's Cove, Adak Alaska, and her once active and still potent guns were silhouetted against the wierdly beautiful snow covered mountains of the Aleutians. 'The next day we stood out for 10 days weather patrol duty 1000 miles WSW, returning 'to port at 0800. Thanksgiving morning. The Captain had radioed the beach to have our turkey thawed out and cleaned. As the lines went over a truck drove up with boxes of fine 'turkeys ready for eager ovens and to make things perfect, piles of mail that had been chasing 'the LUDLOW all over the Pacific for the past two months were carried aboard by willing' Fhands.. ' It was a day of feasting and happy reading of home by all hands. Days later, on 2 December, the LUDLOW put out for Kodiak and a Magic Carpet run to Seattle. One more quick trip to Kodiak and down to San Francisco for Christmas, and New Years Holi- days. The transit of the Panama Canal followed. This time going the Right way. The LUDLOW'S last logged voyage was from the Canal Zone to Charleston where She struck her streaming colors for the last time on 18 january 1046. . pggK..fGi.. 18

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. 1 V inn re Wg, Wim I -And a Gal in Every Port? :DURING the LUDLOW'S five years of commissioned service she has steamed some two hundred ninety thousand miles, the equivalent of thirteen- times around. the W0fld, and visited forty-six ports in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Carribean and Pacific, some of then many times. Ports entered in order are. Bath, Maine A Boston, Massachusetts Newport, R. I. Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Norfolk, Virginia Rockland, t Maine Argentia, Newfoundland 'New York, New York 'I-Ivalfjordur, Iceland Londondeery, North Ireland 'Bermuda fGreenoch, Ireland fCasco Bay, Maine New London, Connecticut fCasablanca, French Morocco Oran, Algeria Palermo, Sicily Algiers, Algeria Gibraltar Naples, Italy Salerno, Italy Cannes, France Gulfe of St. Tropez Marseilles, France g-an Propriano, Corsica Ajaccio, Corsica Toulon, France Golfe Juan, France Mers Fl Kebir, Algeria Arzew, Algeria Bizerte, Tunisia Cristobal, Canal Zone Balboa, Canal Zone San Diego, California Pearl' Harbor, Hawaii Saipan Wakayama, Japan Samar, Philippines San Pedro, Philippines Lingayen Gulf, Philippi n Manila, Philippines Hiro Wan, japan Nagoya, Japan Adak, Alaska Kodiak, Alaska Seattle, Washington CS San Francisco, California Charleston, South Carolina Ci' ,fy P21 if O! .5-v . , ' veit if w i 'v ' ,, ilsla' 577 393, . - .,:-'2- V , , ,qi - ,ff : 45 ,