McCloy (DE 1038) - Naval Cruise Book

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S0l! JPHERIG V' UNITAS IX Unitas IX is a combined nine nation operation that includes the United States of America and the eight major maritime nations of South Americag Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay and Vene- zuela. The theme of Unitas is teamwork and flexibility. Exercises are con- ducted in all facets of naval operations including Anti-Submarine Warfare, formation steaming and refueling and replenishment at sea. 4 Unitas provides an opportunity for the people of South America to meet North American sailors and to participate in various events with them. lt allows the navies of South American Nations and the U. S. A. to work together in multi-lateral exercises. It brings North and South Amer- icans together, in work and in play, so that each can better understand the other and thereby strengthen hemispheric solidarity.

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USS lVlcCloy was christened June 6, 1963, at the U. S. Naval Shipyard, Charleston, South Carolina, and subsequently reported to Com- mander Escort Squadron 10 for duty. The ship honors U. S. Navy Lieutenant Commander John lVlcCloy, who was twice awarded the Medal of Honor for meritorious service at Vera Cruz, lVlexico and during the Boxer Rebellion. NlcCloy is armed with ASROC Cantisub- marine rocketj, DASH fdrone antisubmarine helicopterj, antisubmarine torpedoes and a 3 f5O caliber dual purpose gun battery. She is equipped with the most modern communi- cations and electronic facilities to aid in carry- ing out her mission, which is to screen con- voys and operate offensively against sub- marines. She reported to her home port of Newport, Rhode Island, in January 1964, after an out- fitting period at the Boston Naval Shipyard, and has since participated in numerous fleet exercises. Additionally McCloy has played a A Q, W .-4 -111-If major role in fleet evaluation of a new generation of antisubmarine weap- ons and weapons systems. NlcCloy was deployed to Caribbean and Northern European waters as a unit of the NATO Matchmaker Three Squadron from January through May of 1967. She entered Boston Naval Shipyard in July 1967 for a onar conversion. Having completed her regular overhaul and extensive s overhaul in Nlarch 1968 and refresher training in the Caribbean in lVlay 1968, NlcCloy now has the most modern sonar and anti-submarine weapons systems available to the world's surface ships. She is being considered as a possible prototype for the Brazilian Navy's shipbuilding program.

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LCDR JoHN MCCLOY, NAVAL HERO 4- cCIo was born in Brewster, New York, on Janua I 30 1JE?7hg Zion of James and Margaret .McCann McCIoy. He arg tended public and parochial schools in New York City, and first enlisted in the U. S. Navy on March 7, 1898. Honorably discharged on April 4, 1901, he again enlisted on July 18, 1901. On August 6, 1903, he accepted appointment as Boatswain, and was commissioned Chief Boatswain to date. from July 30, 1909. During World War I he was appointed Ensign Ctemporaryj to rank from October 15, 19173 and Lieutenant ftemporaryi to rank from July 1, 1918, and was commissioned in the latter rank from August 3, 1920. He was transferred to the Retired List of the U. S. Navy in the rank of Lieutenant, after thirty years' service, upon his own request, on July 21, 1928, and on April 27, 1942, was commissioned Lieutenant Commander on the Retired List, to rank from February 23, 1952, having been specially commended by the Secretary of the Navy for per- formance of duty in actual combat. Following his enlistment as Seaman, on March 7, 1898, he served on the USS COLUMBIA, patrolling the Atlantic Coast and Cuba. She convoyed and landed troops under command of General Nelson E. Miles at Guanica, Puerto Rico, and Mc- 'Cloy was one of the crew of the boat which went to rescue the crew of the FOSCOLIA, a British steamer sunk in a collision with the COLUMBIA off Fire Island. In 1899-1902, in the Q Phillippine Islands, he served on the USS MONTEREY, a monitor, 7 and the schooner MANILA, and the gunboats, ARAYAT and ?.- i GARDOQUI. The MONTEREY covered the advance of the Army toward the south from Naila and destroyed enemy guns and works at Olongapog and -the GARDOQUI destroyed enemy commerce while covering landings of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps troops at Manila Bay, Subic Bay and the coast between. During that period he also assisted in the salvage of the ARAYAT, and in the USS NEWARK cruised to Japan and North China, and was in the landing force that attempted the relief of Peking, China. He was discharged at Hong Kong, China, on April 3, 1901 and reenlisted on board the USS MANILA at Cavite, then took part in the landing force to assist the Marines which were attacked by the enemy near Bacor. He was awarded the Medal of Honor, with citation stating: While coxswain, United States Navy, for distinguished conduct in the presence of the enemy in the battles on the 13th, 20th, 21st, and 22nd, of June, 1900, while with the relief expedition of the Allied Forces in China. On board the USS HANCOCK in 1907, he helped extinguish a fire on the USS PAWNEE, which was loaded with powder and shells alongside and the Magazine in which explosives were stored at the Navy Yard, New York. Detached from that vessel in February 1909, he served in the USS FISH HAWK and USS FRANKLIN, and after assisting in fitting out the USS LEBANON, served on board from her commissioning, in June 1910, until June 1911. While on shore duty at the Naval Station, Key West, Florida, he commanded the USS PEORIA to assist the crew of the schooner CARVER on Tennessee Reef. ln September 1913, he joined the USS FLORIDA, which cruised to the Mediterranean Sea and to the West Indies, and was the beach master for the landing force in the occupation of Vera Cruz. He was awarded a second Medal of Honor, with following citation: For distinguished conduct in battle and extraordinary heroism, en- gagement of Vera Cruz, April 21 and 22, 1914. Led a flotilla of three picket launches, mounting 1-pounders along the sea front of Vera Cruz' in front of the naval school and custom house. The launches drew the combined fire of the Mexicans in that vicinity and thus enabled the cruisers to shell them out temporarily and save our men on shore. His conduct was eminent and conspicuous, and, although shot through the thigh during this fire, he remained at his post as beachmaster for 48 hours until sent to a hos- pital ship by the brigade surgeon. After treatment at the Naval Hospital, New York, he had brief duty on board the USS TENNESSEE, and in 1916 served in the USS MAINE during civilian training cruise. Later that year, he reported to the Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, where he served as Assistant to the Captain of the Yard during the early period of World War I. In December 1917 - January 1918 he commanded the USS ONTARIO in an attempt to free a number of shipping board ships caught in the ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and commanded the USS FAVORITE which freed coal vessels caught in the ice on the coast of Main in February 1918. He then had orders to duty in connection with the construction of mine sweepers, and assumed command of the USS CURLEW at the commissioning of that vessel on January 7, 1919. Under his Command the CURLEW took part in the clearing of the North Sea mine barrage in 1919. For distinguished service in the line of his profession as Com- manding Officer of the USS CURLEW, a mine sweeper, engaged in the difficult and hazardous duty of sweeping for and removing the mines of the North Sea Mine Barrage, he was awarded the Navy Cross. As Commanding Officer of the USS LARK, 't f t ' he cruised in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceaansunllefsre wigs merfgclfgwrezrit in July 1925. He then served briefly in the USS PATOKA d US - PHIS, and after a month's treatment at the Naval HospitalarEeagueSlg'aEnI?I Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was attached to the USS DOBBIN from June 15' 1926, until July 14, 1927. He then senled t th N Y ' until transferred to the Retired List, at his owen reqilestimandoweligviaxdy ofazzll active duty on October 15, 1928, after completing thirty years' service Lieutenant Commander McCIoy died ' L ' 24, 1945. Burial was at Arlington Natiolfgl Czf?nl1Ieater5I.eW Jersey on May '