Renshaw (DD 499) - Naval Cruise Book

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Lt. Charles qChuok5 Wood is En- gineering Department Head, has M and R Divisions. I I V R -S 41,1 'Gs i X Lt. Richard qDiokJ Comfort of the Weapons Department has gunnery, ASW and Bosn's mates. Ens. Lawrence 1LarryJ Read is Supply Department Head. Everything from chow to spare parts here. Lt. Char'es QChuoky Pettrsonl 'iperations Department Head, has soi C- 60 men. 3 3 fx , of DEP RT E T HEADS

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Lieutenant Commander Ernest Zon enlisted in theplavy October 27, 1944. His first ship was the USS ALLEN CDD 665 with the following subsequent duties, USS GIRASOL CPY 275, standard landing craft units 61 and 62., USS SAN MARCOS CLSD 255, USS SATYR CARL 235, USS ASKARI CARL 305, USS JASON CARH 15, USS HECTOR CAR '75, 2 years recruiting duty, Glendale, California and the USS BRYCE CANYON CAD 365. He was ordered to OCS in March of 1958 and commissioned an Ensign in June of that year. On completion of OCS he served on boardthe USS TRATHEIN CDD 5305 as lst Lieutenant and Gunnery Officer for 36 months, then as Executive Officer of the USS MARYSVILLE CEPCER 8575 for 24 months. Prior to reporting aboard the RENSHAW he served a 3 year tour of shore duty with the fleet work study group, San Diego, California. LCDR Zon, a native of Minto, North Dakota is married to the former Shirley Pratt of Glendale, California. The Zon's are the parents of two children, Deborah and Stephen and reside in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Executive C- 'Q :Tr 'YQ , UL1- iflilf it ' fficer S eaks X The RENSHAW crew proved again the ability of the American to enable him to live in a difficult environment for ex- tended periods of time to do what has to be done for his country. Our ship is 24 years old this cruise and like a lady of 24 requires more at- tention to recapture her appearance and to enable her to perform at her best, than to try to accomplish feats past and beyond her original capabilities. Our ability to perform as well as we did was accomplished only through the tireless efforts of the officers and crew assigned to this ship. This cruise will be memorable due to the enthusiastic, hard- working crew at sea and the true am- bassadors ashore in foreign ports.

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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