Renshaw (DD 499) - Naval Cruise Book

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v-,v 1 Above, the USS BUCK has launched her motor whale boat for RENSHAW, to 5 exchange information about Yankee Team Ops. right, a torpedo is trans- ferred off RENSHAW onto Buck's waiting A motor whale boat. 4 Training n The 4 A Tonkin Above: Mailcall? Every helo hovering u over our fantail brought that question i from the troops. We hope so here. Right, Rear Admiral Goodfellow, fs. r Commander Cruiser-Destroyer A Force Seventh Fleet, discusses Yankee Team Ops with Captain Breen. v ga 50 w if

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4 ASW operations in the Tonkin Gulf were ,V 13 , y conducted away from the general fray. Submarines Shoreline And Small Craft A formation of SH-3A helos. This type is used extensively in pilot rescue and ASW operations. Here a destroyer partnering with RENSILLAW closes a smoking sub marker. Submarines were sent to operate with Task Force 77 in the Gulf. Here is a rare sight - a surfaced sub in daylight. , V fl ag . igffgi I, W., '.+f'fq iw it E f Qfiiiif A f 'L ',Jf.J! !Q ' V f 'V ' , 745 'x,.Y5 gf,-M X ' ' g,,,: 1i' f L y :A .1 A ,V 51,10 , y me yyuy f 'wma An S2F aircraft, MAD boom extended, roars by RENSHAW. Our carrier, the U.S.S, KEARSARGE, carried many such planes.

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I . Q H, E 5:-5 1 From left: Ensign Charles W. Ditto, Assistant ASW Officer, and Lt tjgy Thomas D. Gill, ASW Officer. u 9,1151 Blind men are responsible for protect- ing the ship from underwater attack., The sonarmen sit in the dark of sonar control listening to the pinging of the ship's sonar, unable to see a thing and hoping never to hear an echo. When the ST's Do get an echo, the torpedomen ready the ship's torpedoes to sink any unfriendly subs lurking around the RENSHAXY. Because the ASW team is blind, We sometimes start pinging off some objects other than subs: affectionate whales off Maui, wrecks in the Formosa Straits, schools of fish near the Philippines, and bottom in shallow water. Here's where our CIC friends in combat help us by giving courses and speeds, such as a three knot reef on a westerly course or a six knot on wreck on a northerly course. Fox division operates and maintains all it's own electronic gear and most of the ASW weapons. The ST's hold routine main- tenance on the hedgehogs fsmall rocketsl and ready service lockers while the TM's maintain the torp tubes and depth charges when called upon, the TM's will demonstrate the operation of the depth charge rack to all interested personnel, including theCaptain. tBlush!J