Salisbury Sound (AV 13) - Naval Cruise Book

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Cialis SW-3 ' X700 DEDICATION OF THIS BOOK This cruise book is dedicated to the men of this good ship, and especially to those who will recall their days of travel and ventures into lands which were once strange, yet there is more to this than an illus- trated chronicle of mere travel and labors, this will represent a part of the young lives of many of the men in SALISBURY SOUND, spent in gaining adulthood, and the aquiring of certain responsibilities which may be their basis for the future. In gaining this goal, though motivated by others, men of the Navy manning ships on such deployments as these are the bulwark of the Free Nations of the World. Without a solid, strong and willing Navy, we would be faced by men-of-arms, such arms could easily be threatening our own United States, or our neighbors to either the north, south, east or west. The stalwart men of today's Navy are playing a greater part in keep- ing our country free than at any other time in history. The same efforts of our forefathers, who pioneered our country, made life better for future millions. We hope that our own efforts will benefit mankind in the same proportionate numbers. . To you, this book is dedicated and our efforts to please are anxious ones.

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With the advent ot Alaskan statehood in these United States of America, Governor William A. Egan, a native Alaskan elected as its first governor, presented a set of medallions ot the state seal to the U.S.S. SALISBURY SOUND lAV-i3l. The SALISBURY SOUND takes its name from a sound which is located in our newly born state, Alaska. The ship's skipper, Captain Robert F. Farrington, USN, had C..l. Bobango, DCT, and A.N. Tiongco, TN, design the plaque as a tribute to the state with which we are proud to be associated.

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rg uf EIETEEN YEARS OF SERVICE ln T945 SALISBURYSOUND lAV-T31 was launched by the Todd Shipbuilding Company, and after sea-trials, outfitting and delivery to the Navy at Long Beach, California, she was added to the roster of naval vessels, a new weapon in the Pacifici Feet. Sally's sallies have taken her on a route of the United States coast from Seward, Alaska, south to her one time home port of San Diego. She has made a total off fourteen U41 deployments prior to this one, traveling to the maior seaports of ther Western Pacific. In Japan, she has been at home in Yokosuka, Kobe, Kure, Saselmo and Iwakuni. She has operated out of Buckner ,Bay and Naha, Okinawa, visited Singapore and Hong Kong of the British Crown Colonies, called at Tsingtao and Shanghai of Red Chinal, she has called at Kaohsiung, Keelung and Takao of Formosa Tfliwdn , operated from Sangley Point and Subic Bay Philippine Islands , and H1050 900 will tours: the first being to Bangkok, Thailand, the most recent being to SaiQ0n, Caroline Islands, and the Pescadores Islands. rin? he' m0nY VOYGQGS, the SALISBURY SOUND and her crew have been OWU 9 0ll9W 9 CC'mP0iQn meddlsz Ch'na Service Medal, Naval Occupation Service 9 lA5lGi, Korean Presidential Citation Badge, Korean Service Medal and United Ndflons Service Medal. K l l 4 P c i d South Viet-Nam, in 1959. She has gone on spur trips that included North Borneo, Du rded th f I M dal Sally has been dePl0Yed from a period of six fbi months to as l0H9 Us Eileen fl5i months. All this without a maior conversion nor a prolonged naval shipyard overhaul. Sally Sound, though aging and tired, is an experienced ship with a few 0 . h experienced men who are her mainstay. Her youngsters are,a hardy bunchzgui I f GVQSS percentage af them not yet old enough to vote' You may Well ask' h . . ll. ' ' ' ni? cfm alle do all the lobs that make her so valuable? The anSW9 2 wining s,T:1nte lgence, and capable leadership. d h e men of Sally Sound on th' h ain visite le familiar route, and br h 1 b IS er fifteenth dePloYment, have 09. H and the Navy. OUQ t credit to themselves, their capable old Sl 'P ' ,4 r