Robert E Peary (FF 1073) - Naval Cruise Book

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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 ....

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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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I I ii 1 - .4-. . I 1. . ' 5 COMMANDER DESTROYER SQUADFION THIRTY-THREE ,, g'wQ,3,1 H ,wus 24.1--, , , 'fy i ,my 'M f , ' A 9 Q X ff.. ' ix , H 'PAL ,5- f I f , .. .sf I E1 ,.,,., sav V f ffm Wi W ,, 7. , gf Muff ff ,f f 7 .f - fi ,,,,., f ,7 U ,W ,f f ' ,, ' 557-7 WU'-W 2,0 ,rj , ,fi 'ff I , fr 'ff ' 5 fr , f,,f'l,, f , ,, ,f g, , fn 'E if - 2 Q CAPTAIN JOHN A. BALDWIN, JR., USN Captain John A. Baldwin is a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and attended schools in that city prior to com- pleting his secondaryueducation at Kent School, Kent, Connecticut. He entered the U.S. Naval Academy in July 1951, graduating and receiving his commission as an Ensign in June 1955. Captain Baldwin served briefly in the USS DENNIS J. BUCKLEY QDDFI 808i and with the Small Craft Facility at the Naval Academy before reporting to the USS GAINARD QDD 706i as First Lieutenant and later as Chief Engineer. During this tour the GAINARD made deployments to Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, South America and the Carribean. In 1959 he relieved as Executive Officer of the USS JEFFER- SON COUNTY QLST 8453, making a deployment to the Western Pacific as a unit of the SEVENTH FLEET. ln 1960, Captain Baldwin assumed command of the USS MARYSVILLE QEPCEFI 857i, after which the MARYSVILLE engaged in oceanographic, acoustic, and electronic research in EASTPAC and MIDPAC in support of the Navy's Research and Development community. ln August, 1962 Captain Baldwin commenced studies in Oceanography at the Univer- sity of Washington under the Navy's Postgraduate Education Program, following which he reported to the Naval Oceanographic Office for a brief indoctrination tour. In 1964 he reported as Executive Officer of the USS JOHNSON QDD 8211, making a deployment to the SIXTH FLEET in the Mediterranean. Captain Baldwin's second command tour followed in 1965 when he relieved as Commanding Officer of the USS JOHN R. PERRY QDE 1030. During this tour the homeport of the ship was changed from Key West, Florida to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Relinquishing command in 1967, Cap- tain Baldwin reported tothe staff of the Oceanographer of the Navy as the Assistant for Anti-Submarine Warfare Re- quirements. He returned to sea when he became the first Commanding Officer of the USS MEYEFIKORD QDE 1058, upon her commissioning on November 28, 1969. Upon com- pletion of Shakedown trials, inspections and training, MEYERKORD deployed to the Western Pacific, where duty with the SEVENTH FLEET included combat operations in the Gulf of Tonkin, an excursion into the Indian Ocean, and joint operations with the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Forces. Commencing in 1972, Captain Baldwin served as an advisor to the Vietnamese Navy, acting as Senior Advisor to Com- mander, Second Costal Zone, in addition to serving as Com- mander Task Group 115.2. A subsequent reorganization resulted in his assuming command of the Naval advisory effort in Military Region TWO. In 1973, Captain Baldwin reported to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations for duty with the Systems Analysis Division. He served in and subsequently headed the Sea Control Forces Group, providing analytic sup- port for the CNO's decision making process. He assumed command of Destroyer Squadron THIRTY-THREE in August 1975. Captain BaIdwin's wife Leslie is also from Baltimore, Maryland. They have two children, Charles and Dorothy and are currently residing in Honolulu, Hawaii.