Maury (AGS 16) - Naval Cruise Book

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1 f 1756! ll 1 'Pi . 'Z' V v. CAPTAIN W.-I. MCNULTY COMMANDING OFFICER 4.4!

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It was the privilege of USS MAURY on the morning of 26 january 1962 to welcome aboard His Royal Highness Crown Prince Vajiralongarana and his sister, Her Highness Princess Ubolratana Rajkalaya, along with twenty seven of their classmates from the Chitra Lada School in Bangkok. The Royal Party was conducted on a tour of the ship, shown cartoons, feted at lunch on the mess decks with the enlisted personnel, and presented with gifts which included white sailor hats, MAURY-made models, and pictures of MAURY. The men of MAURY were delighted with the opportunity to meet and entertain these members of Thai1and's Royal Family and their young friends. In commemoration of this visit, and in honor of His Royal Highness, this Cruise Book is dedicated to the Crown Prince of Thailand with the fervent hope and prayer that in the fullness of time he will be every inch a king , and in the words of William Wordsworth, be possesed of reason firm,temperate will, endurance, foresight, strengh, and skill, a perfect man nobly planned to Warn, to comfort, and command .

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P A. is gag Captain Willard J. McNulty was bom in Spokane, Washington, but calls San Francisco, California his home town. He attended Mission High School in San Francisco and the University of California at Berkeley prior to starting his Naval career as aSeaman Recruit in july 1940. Upon completion of Midshipman School aboard USS PRAIRIE STATE and commissioning as an Ensign, USNR, on 28 February 1941 , he was ordered to USS DENTCDD-1163 for duty. DENT operated in San Diego and Aleutian waters, and following her conversion to APD-9, in the Solomons. Captah McNulty departed DENT in 1943 as Executive Officer. From 1944 to 1946 he served as Executive Officer and later. Command- ing Officer of the USS HOPPING CDE-1551 escorting North Atlantic convoys. Here again he saw his ahip's Upon completion of Midshipman School aboard USS PRAIRIE STATE and commissioning as an Ensign, USNR, on 28 February 1941, he was ordered to USS DENT CDD-1163 for duty. DENT operated in San Diego and Aleutian waters, and following her conversion to APD-9, in the Solomons. Captain McNulty departed DENT in 1943 as Executive Officer. From 1944 to 1946 he served as Executive Officer and later Command- ing Officer of the USS HOPPING CDE-1553 escorting North Atlantic convoys. Here again he saw his ship's designation changed to an APD. Captah McNulty was subsequently awarded the Bronze Star with Combat V for action off Okinawa in addition to area, victory, and occupation medals. Following the war he served as Commanding Officer USS BURKE CAPD-655 until February 1947. He then attended the School of Naval Administration at Stanford University prior: to reporting to Civil Administra hon, Palau Islands for duty. He served as Deputy Civil Administrator, Westem Caroline Islands until 1949 when he attended the General Line School at Monterey, California. After Line School he spent a year as Inspector-Instructor, Naval Reserve at Greenville, Mississippi. In 1951 he recommissioned USS TABBERER CDE-4135 and served as her Command ing Officer until August 1952. His next billet was Executive Officer, USS ADIRONDACK CAGC-155, Flagship for CINCNELM in Naples, Italy. 1953 found him in Washington, D. C. for a tour of duty in BUPERS. He retumed to sea in 1956 as Commanding Officer USS IRWIN fDDl794J and in 1958 Commanding Officer USS MANSFIELD QDD-728j. In 1959 he reported to U.S. Naval Station, Pearl Harbor as Executive Officer. IN 1960 Captain McNulty reported to the staff of COMFOURTEEN as Assistant Chief of Staff fAdministratlonj and on 15 july 1961 he assumed his present duty as Commanding Officer USS MAURY KAGS-161. Captain McNulty is married to the former Esther L. Thompson of Berkeley, California. They have four children: Patricia, Michael, Linda, and Ingrid. We have prepared this cruisebook to further the remembrance of the 1961-62 cruise of Task Unit 73.2.1 composed of USS MAURY QAGS-165, and USS SERRANO CAGS-241, Coastal Survey Team 1-62, and Unit 33-62 of Helicopter Utility Squadron ONE. The ships, the team, and the detachment had varied missions, but they all added up to a survey of the Gulf of Thailand. We were ably assisted in the 8CC0mPliShm9flt Of OUT mission bY the splendid cooperation of the personnel of the Hydrographic Department of the Royal Thai Navy, who arranged for our port visits in Bangkok, for stationkeepers and for liaison officers aboard MAURY, SERRANO and Coastal Survey Team 1-62. ' However, you the Men of MAURY, made Maury's portion of the survey a success. It was through your knowledge, devotion to duty and wholehearted cooperation that we were able to accomplish our mission, to complete 33,500 miles of surveylines and to keep the ship, helicopter, sound boats and Lorac stations in proper material condition and readiness. I am sure as you scan this book in the years to come, it will bring back many fond memories of a good deployment and fine shipmates. I am very proud to have had the privilege of sailing a- board MAURY with you, one of the finest crews a commanding officer could want. W WW W. J. McNULT Captain, U.S. N vy