Robert E Peary (FF 1073) - Naval Cruise Book

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l K V U fy . l l l We wanderers, ever seeking the Ionelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day, and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps, we travel . I e SHIP'S CHARACTERISTICS Overall Length .............. ............ 4 38 Feet Beam ........ ...... 4 6 Feet, 9 Inches Displacement .... . . . 4200 Tons lFull Loadl Navigational Draft . . ............ 25 Feet, 5 Inches Speed ................................... ln Excess of 27 Knots Propulsion ......................... Single screw, steam turbines, twin 1200 pound pressure boilers, 35,000 shaft horsepower, automatic combustion controls. SONARS ..................... ANXSQS-26CX bow mounted SONAR and ANXSQS-35 Independent Variable Depth SONAR. Armament .......................... Single 5-inch 54-caliber rapid fire gun mount, Anti-Submarine Rocket lASFlOCl, Basic Point Defense Missile System QBPDMSJ, hull mounted homing torpedoes, single manned SH-2F LAMPS lLight Airborn Multipurpose Systeml Helicopter for ASWIASMD and rescue, surveillance and logistics operations. The ship also carries a full battery of sensors a countermeasures systems for the various naval warfare spectrums. 2 11 if ni C . A .FQ I

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WESTPAC '76 USS ROBERT E. PEARY QFF 10731 A destroyer is a lovely ship, probably the nicest fighting ship of all. Battleships are like steel cities, or great factories of destruction. Aircraft carriers are floating flying fields. Even cruisers are big pieces of machinery, but a destroyer is all boat. ln the beautiful clean lines of her, in her speed and roughness, in her curious gallantry, she is completely a ship, in the old sense. JUNE 21 TO OCTOBER 17, 1976

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DEDICATION THIS CRUISEBOOK IS DEDICATED TO ALL THE FAMILIES, FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES OF EACH CREWMEMBER. FOR WITHOUT THEIR PATIENCE, FOREBEARANCE AND DEVOTION THE DEPLOYMENTS WOULD SEEM LONGER, LONELIER AND MORE PAINFUL AND THE HOMECOMINGS WOULD BE MEANINGLESS ....