Lynde McCormick (DDG 8) - Naval Cruise Book

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USS LYNDE . Named after one of the Navy's most distinguished modern-day naval figures, USS LYNDE MCCORMICK KDDG-82 was commissioned on 3 June 1961, Naval Shipyard, Boston, Mass. The naval career of her namesake provided the ship by example a high standard of performance to follow from the outset: Admiral McCormick, U,S. Naval Academy Class of 1915, distinguished himself by-both his World War II combat record and the positions he held until his death in 1956. He commanded the destroyer USS KENNEDY, served as Admiral Nimitz's War Plans Officer, and as Commander Battleship Division Three during the war. He later served successively as Vice Chief of Naval Operationsg Acting Chief of Naval Operations, Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic INATOJQ and President of the U.S. Naval War College. LYNDE MCCORMICK was built by the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan. . Her keel was laid on 4 April 1958, she was launched on 28 July 1959 and shortly thereafter the second guided missile warship ever built on the Great Lakes headed to the Atlantic Ocean via the then recently completed St. Lawrence Seaway. After fitting out in Boston, LYNDE MCCORMICK sailed for her home port of San Diego, California, in August, 1961. Enroute she made calls in Washington, D.C., and after passing through the Panama Canal, Acapulco, Mexico. She arrived in San Diego on 16 September 1961. After an upkeep period, shake-down training commenced in October. During this period she underwent the final acceptance trials which subjected her to maximum operational demands under the close scrutiny of a group of experienced naval observers. The intensive training and preparation was completed on 8 December 1961. USS LYNDE MCCORMICK is a fighting ship from masthead to keel. Her capabilities include not only those of her forbears, but the most advanced ones as well. She is equipped with enough ordnance gear to wage simultaneous attacks upon surface, sub-surface, and airborne targets. Her Combat Information Center and Weapons Control Equipment incorporate means of target acquisition undreamed of only a few years ago. The Tartar guided missile is LYNDE MCCORMICK's primary anti-aircraft weapon capable of destroying supersonic fighters and bombers at distances considerably in excess of gun range. Combined with the long range of her sonar equipment, the ASROC weapons system is the most effective means of combating submarines that a surface ship has ever enjoyed. Two 5 f54 rapid-fire guns and two surface launched anti-submarine torpedo mounts round out LYNDE MCCORMICK's deadly firepower capability. LYNDE MCCORMICK, BLACK and KNOX at the pier in Midway.

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! MCCORMICK D DG Si Socking-it-to-'em in IV Corps. Dusk on the gunline. On 6 January 1969, LYNDE MCCORMICK, in company with RICHARD S. EDWARDS, FRANK KNOX, and BLACK, was underway for her fifth deployment to the western Pacific. Acting as flag- ship for COMDESDIV 172, LYNDE MCCORMICK was to meet the demands and rigors of WESTPAC and maintain the highest standards of the naval service. Making tracks across the Pacific