Rowan (DD 782) - Naval Cruise Book

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J,-J il ROWAN BEFORE FRAMMING R0 AN 1945-1975 Named for V ice Admiral Stephen Clegg ROWAN USS ROWAN is the fourth ship to bear the name covering more than seventy years of naval history. The present ROWAN, a 710-Class, FRAM-I destroy- er, was commissioned 31 March 1945 at Todd Naval Shipyard, Seattle, Washington. She served admira- bly through her first years and during her operations in the Korean conflict. From July 1963 through May 1964, ROWAN un- derwent extensive modernization at the Phila- delphia Naval Shipyard, emerging with the latest anti-submarine weapons-the anti-submarine rock- et LASROCJ and the drone anti-submarine helicopter LDASHJ, the latter having since been removed. In addition to ASROC, ROWAN is armed with two 5-inch! 38 caliber, twin gun mounts and six torpedo tubes. ROWAN's primary mission is anti-submarine warfare but ROWAN can also perform anti-air War- fare, escort and shore bombardment functions. ROWAN made deployments to the Western Pa- ? 7 cific for duty with the U. S. SEVENTH Fleet from 1965 through 1971, participating in fast aircraft car- rier task force operations, junk surveillance and shore bombardment in support of the U.S. effort in Vietnam. In October 1971, ROWAN, as a member of De- stroyer Squadron FIFTEEN, changed her homeport from San Diego, California to Yokosuka, Japan. R0- WAN continued to perform extensively in escort and naval gunfire support roles throughout the Vietnam conflict. During April and May of 1975, ROWAN per- formed extensively in support of Frequent Windy, the evacuation of Americans and Vietnamese ref- ugees from South Vietnam. The ROWAN crew per- formed engineering repair on craft of approximately 100 Vietnamese refugees stranded at sea while flee- ing to Maylaysia. In addition, ROWAN supplied the refugees with food, medicine, Water, fuel and naviga- tion equipment.

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USS ROWAN Q Cruigq Rodin tqlfy DD-7825 CONTENTS ROWAN 2-4 Commanding Officer 5 Executive Oflicer 6 4 I-E Operations Department 7-16 Weapons Department 17-25 Engineering Department 26-37 Supply Department 38-41 New Faces 42-43 Awards 44-46 Reenlistments 47 30th Birthday 48-49 Underway Replenishment 50-53 Helo Detail 54-55 Pilot Rescue 56 Ship Life 57-69 Chiefs 70-71 Officers 72-74 Athletics 75-76 Motor Whale Boat Race 77 Frequent Wind 78-82 Life Raft Race 83-84 Ports of Call 85-94 In Memoriam 95 The Sun Sets on ROWAN 96 1

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