Saint Paul (CA 73) - Naval Cruise Book

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HEN SAINT PAUI. sTeamed ouT oT Long Beach har- bor Tor The Far EasT on May 4, I954, we were Taking her ouT on her TenTh year oT service in The Navy. IT had been almosT nine years To The day since she had repor'Ted To Admiral Bull I-laIsey's Task Force 38 Tor her TirsT duTy in The PaciTic. Since ThaT Time she had remained in conTinuous commission longer and sTeamed more miles Than any oTher U. S. cruiser in commission. She had seen The end oT Two wars and possibly The embryonic beginnings oT a Third, And she had earned herselT an enviable repuTa- Tion among The ships oT The Navy. For despiTe her beIaTed arrival in World War ll, she arrived in Time To Tire The lasT salvo oT The war on The Japanese home islands. And on SepTember 2, I954, she sTeamed up Tokyo Bay wiTh MISSOURI Tor The surrender ceremonies. Surrender did noT mean resT. A Tew days laTer, The SAINT sTeamed souTh as Tlagship Tor Admiral Turner Joy's YangTze River paTroI. During The Tollowing years, The IisT oT porTs which The ship visiTed sound like a caTaIogue oT The Far PaciTic: Shanghai, TsingTao, Manila, Formosa. Okinawa, The Marshalls, Borneo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, I'lawaii .... And iT her IaTe arrival in World War II prevenTed her X 1 To . LJ Trom proving ThaT she had The sTuTT, The FIGHTING SAINT wasTed no. Time in proving iT in The Korean War. On a midshipman Training cruise aT The ouTbreak oT hos- TiliTies, she immediaTeIy unloaded her passengers and crossed The PaciTic. Upon arrival she became Tlagship Tor Rear Admiral BinTord's Formosa paTrol. ATTer several monThs oT This duTy, she proceeded norTh To The seas oTT The beleagured Korean peninsula. The ship was a iack-oT-all-Trades during Those years. She supplied close gunTire suppor'T Tor The Troops ashore. She conducTed gunsTrikes along The enTire EasTern coasT oT NorTh Korea. OTTen she sTeamed Tar ouT To sea wiTh Task Force 77 playing waTchdog Tor The carriers. I-Ier heIicopTer played bird dog and rescued many a downed and sTricken piloT. ln emergencies, her sick bay comTorTed and mended The wounded oT smaller ships, There was, hardly a maior campaign involving naval uniTs in The Korean War in which SAINT PAUI. did noT parTicipaTe: The drive To Chongiin, The lnchon invasion, The I-lungnam evacuaTion, Wonsan, Anchor I-Iill .... And as if To complimenT The Tinal rounds she Tired in World War II, SAINT PAUL sTeamed inTo Treacherous Wonsan harbor on The morning oT July 27, I953, and Tired The lasT salvo Trom a major naval vessel in The Korean War. By May, I954, when The SAINT was again due To reTurn To The Par EasT, The shooTing in Asia had slighTly abeTTed. BuT we did noT expecT a peaceTuI cruise. A biTTer shooTing war was sTiIl under way in Indo-China, Korea was by no means seTTIed, and The Chinese CommunisTs were already mouThing blaTanT ThreaTs To invade Chiang Kai-Shek's Formosa. SAINT PAUL's mission in This uneasy siTuaTion was an imporTanT one, Tor upon arrival in Yokosuka, Japan, on May 27, The Commander, SevenTh PIeeT made her his Tlag- ship. The SAINT had carried The Tlags oT many oT The com- manders under which she had served during her Ten years oT service, buT none had a greaTer or more imporTanT role