Quincy (CA 71) - Naval Cruise Book

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fi . ,,:E'i' T elle oft if ,Q ,X 1 ly, .f ,sg J.-,K .3 5, li -av .se- 132 .,,,,- 'xl SPM if , .- Quincy! CAPTAIN L. H. CHAPPELL USN 31 Ian. 1952 - 6 Dec. 1952 Captaln Lucius Henry CHAPPELL USIN the first Skipper upon recommxsstoning was born on February 20 190s lil Corumbus Georgia I-Ie was commlssloned Fnslgu upon graduatx n f m the US Natal A 'xdemy on June 2 1927 and progressively advanced to the rarlt of Captam to da e fem Maxcu 20 1945 Follcvm g aduatrcn tn 1924 he was assigned to the US S IDATIO From June 1929 he had con ecutuc duty 111 the de trowers MELVIN FARLNHOLT HONEY TAYLOR and IB the destroyer tenuer WHITNE1 ln January 1933 he reported to t'1e Submarine School New London Connecticut and sri lIt'Dl.l1S later was assigned to the US S S 28 After a tour ashore he placed the U SS SNAPI ER m eornmxssxcn as Exeeutne Officer and Navlgator of that submarine thence as DIVI lou Engineer on the Stall' of Commander Snhmarme DlW1Sl0l'l 15 He as umed command of the USS SCULP'1N on lhay 6 1941 m which he completed eight war patrols seven of which we e designated successful during the first two years of World War II Other duty stations of Captain CHAPPELL mcluded Marme Engineering PostG aduate S I-ool Operational ammg Officer Staff Commander Submarme Force Pacific Fleet Comm nd of Submarine Division 281 Wax Plans Board Suomarme Force Pacific Fleet Command of Submarine Squadron 7 Naval Aide to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy and command of the U SS MT NICKINLEH QACC 71 L :tam CHAPPELL wears the following ribbons for campaigns and citations lNavy Cross with Gold Star ln lieu of a second 1Navy Cross Legion of Me rt Commendation Ribbon with Bronze Star Purple Heart Medal Army Umt Commendation Ribbon American Defense Medal As1atxePacxfic Campaign Medal Pluhppme Defense Ribbon World War II Victory Medal and Submarine Combat Insxgma Captain CHAPPELL and his wife the former M1 s Phyllis Constance White of Vancouver, B C have two children, Constance Kent and Randolph Colher Chappell Naples Utalyj 6 Dec. 1952 hfemo to all Hands In taking over command of your fine .ship I want to express my appreciation to all of you who have labored mightily to bring the. Quincy to her present condition since leaving ttMoth Balls less than a year ago. I know that I can count on you to continue your splendid work with the same Quincy SPIRIT that you have developed under Captain Chappell. Let us make our goal L' None finer than the A. H. Taylor CAPTAIN A. H. TAYLOR USN 6 Dec. 1952 The second and present Commanding Officer Captain Arthur Howard TAYLOR USN born March 18 1905 m Phtladelphla Pennsylvania was also a memoer of the US Naval Academy Class of 1927 Upon graduatlon his first duty assignment was ln the USS WXOMIING fom which he moved to serve m the destrovers WILLIAMSON and DALLAS He entered the Submarine School New London Connecticut 'md was designated a submariner in June 1931 Hrs service m the submarme force included the S 35 S 34 S 32 and returned to command the S35 thence to command the S 24 and S 16 The early months of World War II found htm rn command of the USS HADDOCB nn which he made three war patrols lu Japanese waters From the HADDOCK he was ordered to staff duty Submarine Force Pacific Fleet He was promoted to Captatu March 20 1945 and his commands smce that tune consisted of Commander Submarlne Squadron 1 and the USS ROCKWALL APN 230 from which sessel he was ordered to command the L S S QUINCY Included with the above Captam TAYLORs other d.xty stattons were Staff Commander THIRD fleet Office of Deputy Chief of INaval Operations and th Bureau of Ordnance Hts decoration: a e the Navy Cross with Gold Star ID heu of a second award Srlier 'tar Legion of Vlerlt Commendation Ribbon Presidential Umt Citation Amerxcun Defen e American Theatre As1atlcPac1Iic Theatre World War II Victory Medal and Japanese Occupation Medal Captam TAHLOR and his wife the former Miss Marjorie Hames, of Philadelphia Pennsylvania, are the parents of two children, Patterson Corwin and Anthony Rogers Taylor

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INTRODUCTIONs Well? ' 4 The cruise is over. We came, we saw, we went. Any book pretending to record a ship's cruise must fail. The measure of its failure is the extent to which it loses the theme of that cruise. And yet who is there to whom that theme has not, in some way, a different meaning from what it has to the closest of his shipmates? Who is there who has not been left with some -special memory, some sense or feeling, or some discovery, that is his and his alone? These immediately personal impressions will be the pages between the pages.'E'ach of us has seen, and, seeing, has learned and remembered. The phonograph catches only the sound of things, and the camera sees but the form and the color, neither feels the gentle brush of an Adriatic breeze or absorbs the warmt of the Mediterranean sung nor can it sense the crashing cacophony of the Apennines towering over olive-studded slopes, or know the human beat of discovery as new cities unfold, and new lives are revealed. The spirit and the 'sense and the spark of life - this, that no science can record, is the meat and the substance of human recollection. It cannot be found in books and pictures. Nor can it be put there. It has to be known and seen and felt. We, who have known and seen and felt all this, may occasionally stretch out on the Quincy's wooden deck, with a battle-gray turret massed above and the ocean slipping silently by for mile after uncounted mile -- this on one of those meteorological holidays when the infinite sea seems lost in sleep, and the mind turns itself to idle imaginings - and ponder whimsically on what our lives would have been like if we had never been there. What would have filled those spots in our memory that now ring with the clatter of Glasgow traffic, or echo the refrain ofa Neapolitan song? But, ponder as we will, we ponder in vain. Our past is with us. Indubitably and irrevocably, we were there. N

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OPERATIONS OFFICER GUNNERY OFFICER WCDR, F. L, DUBOIS, USN ENGINEERING OIWVICER LCDR. E. W. SCOTT, USN m:D1cAL OFFICER HEADS OE DEPARTMENTS EXECUTIVE OFFICER CDR. J.B. MORLAND, USN SUPPLY OFFICER DENTAL OFFICER LCDR RE HOLT USN LT F N ELLIS USN LCDR. R. L. RATH, USN NAWGATOR LCDR. J.J. HERON, USN CHAPLAIN LCDB H G K FAALAND USN LCDR L J F OUELIETTE USN -u ' n 7 ' I I 9 s 9 U 1 1 9 . 0 . I 1