Renshaw (DD 499) - Naval Cruise Book

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White water pounds RENSHAW'S side in the Bashi Channel during a storm that lasted days. The Professionals The RENSHAW'S equipment is worn with use. and its upkeep provides the crew with an almost 24 hour internal and external war on wear. This means that these destroyermen, no matter how late the hour or how little the sleep, must be there to replace a vacuum tube or patch a pipe. They are there on the job and, nine times out of ten, will perform the task without a single groan. The new man on board learns this fact of Destroyer life soon enough. Westpac 1966 was a tour for the USS RENSHAW and her crew that represented work-hard, very often disappointing, thankless , seemingly fruitless work. But then we have much of which to be proud--and thankful for. There is no uestion but that whatever was given Cl us, we did it, and with pride. The USS RENSHAW has, after all, a tradition and a history to uphold. Westpac 1966 only added to her honor. Above, top, supplies swing onto RENSHAW. Below, a Quarter- master with his sextant pre- pares to shoot the sun.

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, M. Jr' .AKHW M RENSH The Ship, , f . rv l .my Her Crew The destroyermen of the USS RENSHAW are unique because they can answer certain qualifications. They are on a destroyer, not a cargo ship or a radar picket ship. They can fight, especially against their eerie, deadly sparring partners, submarines. And, above all else, they are confident that they will win. They are members of a small combatant ship that carries approximately 260 officers and men. The crew is tight. Everybody knows where everyone is from and can tell funny sea stories about each other they'll never forget. These men, by necessity, are the pro- verbial Jacks of all Trades. They seem to thrive on special problems and soon grow restless if there are none. The RENSHAW is an old 2100 class destroyer, one of a type that inspired legends of heroism in the South Pacific and helped the destroyer earn the title of the Greyhound of the Oceans. The USS RENSHAW has a curious, almost imperceptible two degree-list-to port sort of battle scar, the result of a Japanese torpedo during a furious battle in which ten crewmen were lost. .. ..,..-. ,,.wJ...N

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