Randolph (CVS 15) - Naval Cruise Book

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:-1-,fT?3?'3f?2i:L':: ' ' -V 'V A new mission - AS W - requiring new 62.767612 new weapons, new tactics, and intenszfea' training for cz New Team: Taslc Force ALFA. but on july 1 she set out on another Mediter- ranean deployment. While there, her crew learn- ed of their winning the coveted 1957 Battle Efficiency Award. Most of the early part of the cruise was spent in the eastern Med, with the Sixth Fleet,s strength concentrated there due to the Syrian uprisings between August and Decem- ber -the Med's Hannual crisisf' Shipis com- pany did have the opportunity to visit some of the better liberty ports of the western Mediterra nean however, before returning home February 24 1958 Following a shipyard overhaul penod in Ports mouth Virginia she steamed towards Gitmo for summer was spent in coastal operations but on September 2 Randofbh sailed forth on her fifth ' -ag V :,- f J f ' 4 A 'SNP' ,J I I ,f -V M .g -1 fs '- Mediterranean deployment. The ship again had the Battle Efficiency Award conferred upon her for fiscal 1958, the presenta- tion being made on September 7. She turned it into a spectacular by sweeping the Air, Opera- tions, Gunnery and Engineering Department Awards also - in what is believed to be an un- precedented feat for an aircraft carrier. Most of the 1958-1959 deployment was spent in the western Med with NATO operations and visits to a variety of good liberty ports providing the highlights of the cruise. Back in the United States in mid-March, RandoQbh assumed a new role in the fleet as of the first of the following month - that of an anti-submarine support car- rier with the new designation CVS Following 1 period of schooling and quahfica tions for Randolplz s personnel the ship embark ed on 1 six week cruise to proxe her capabilities 'ts 'tn ASW flftttop NROTC midshxpmeuwere nation along with ship s comp tux Ports x xsited during the cruise bx the lllll11CI'lXlllC!' Group - , u h , . . C . . L 1 .. - 1 - . ' 7 ' ' 'P Q I ' , . . . , . C C y I Q , A , L , v pw Shakedown operations. The remainder of the training aboard and received valuable indoctri- . C. , C. c k . 1 . .1 1 l k 34

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