Samuel B Roberts (DD 823) - Naval Cruise Book

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,4,...........-.. . -Ms-. .,l ln li 1-1 11 l , i Arnaud the Warld frm ewparf ep! 29, I 965 to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba ..... .------- 41 OCTO1D9l' Transit Panama Canal ....... ............. 6 October Pearl 1-larbor, Hawaii ...... ...... 2 O - 22 October Midway lsland ....... ............ 2 5 October Yokosuka, Japan... ...... ...... 1 - 3 November Sasebo, Japan ....................................... ........ .......... ' 5 - 13 November Subic Bay, Philippines lQperating Basel ....... ...................... 1 6 - 29 November On the Line, South China Sea and Vietnam ........... 30 November - 16 January 1966 Subic Bay ............................................... ......................... 1 7 - 211 January Hong Kong ...... ................. . .. ............. ...... 2 6 January - 1 February Subic: Bay .................................................... .................... 2 February Back on the Line, South China Sea and Vietnam ..... ......... 3 20 February Subic Bay .............. Crossed the Fauator Penang, Malaysia.. Cochin, lndia ....... Aden Protectorate .... Port Suez, Egypt ..... Transit Suez Canal.. 24 February ........28 February .1 - 2 March March ......12 March .......15 March .......16 March Naples, ltaly .......... ,,,,,, 2 O - 23 March Barcelona, Spain ..... ,,,,,, 2 L1 - 27 March Gibraltar ..................... ,,,,,,,, 2 9 March Ponta Del Gada, Azores. ,,,,,,, 1April cwparf April 8, 1966

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fx U16 ,jlfl an and the lzzjv l Samuel B. RoberTs, Jr., Coxswairi USNR WGS msihumousiy award- A 'TOClmdThGWQlOvy Cross Tor his heroism aT Guadalcanal in The Solomon ls- 5- Sn U.S. Marines 'v.X f ere backed inTo The sea, Their evacuation was madenpossible when S.B. RoberTs drew enemy Tire wiTh his Hig- gins boaT . WiTh his boaT driven hard up on The beach This 21 year old youTh man d h' ' - ' me 'S mocllme QW OQainsT hopeless odds and ToughT Ten- aciously To save his comrades, Th? flrsihslilp bear The name was a desTroyer escorT CDE-Lilfij com- SAMUEL B. ROBERTS mlfsliongd m AST WM only lo be SWT The iOllOlf'-me UCWDGT in GCTiOn W ic did crediT To her namesake. Under LCDR COPELAND, The DE engaged enemy cruisers in The BaTTle oT LeyTe GulT. The ship ToughT ggglomilbf Und WGS Sunls only aTTer having Tired Three Torpedoes and over rounds oT ammuniTion aT her adversaries. The bravery and devoTion To .dEllY Of. one Third Class Ounner's MaTe named Carr was Typical of The Shlp s spiriT. As mounT capTain, he conTinued To aTTempT To load his gun mounT demolished by an enemy hiT. The presenT USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS CDD-8335 is a GEARING class desTroyer which in early Eebruary l962 compleTed an eleven monTh ERAM Mlil iEleeT RehabiliTaTion and Moderniza- fgonj of The Rhiladelphia Naval Shipyard. This conversion included The insTallaTion of ASROE fAnTi-Submarine Rocl4eTsD and DASH lDrone AnTi-Submarine HelicopTerD, giving The ship greaTer range and desTrucTive capabiliTies Than Those aTTorded by ouT-daTed depTh charge TacTics. The SAMUEL B. ROBERTS is The second U.S. warship To bear ThaT name. The original SAMUEL B. ROBERTS CDE-l1l3D was losT on 25 OcTober l91l1l, oTT Samar T.-.fhile heroically defending an escorT carrier Task group againsT Japanese cruisers in The BaTTIe of LeyTe Gulf. This ship was named Tor a Navy Coxswain, posThumously awarded The Navy Cross Tor deliberaTely drawing enemy Tire wiTh his Higgins BoaT during The evacuaTion of wounded Marines aT Guadalcanal. The presenT USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS was builT by The ConsolidaTed Sfeel EorporaTion Ship- yard, Orange, Texas and was commissioned There 20 December l91lo. The ship is 3906 long wiTh an exTreme breadTh oT lil' and a speed in excess oT 3l l4noTs. The SAMUEL B. ROBERTS has 60,000 horsepower C30,000 per shaTTj and a displacemenT of 3,1160 Tons. Her crew numbers abouT 2110 men and lo oTTicers. ln addiTion To The ASROC and DASH, The armamenT includes Two 5 f38 Twin mounTs and 2 seTs oT MK-32 Torpedo Tubes on The 0l level Torward. The SAMUEL B. ROBERTS has operaTed in The NorTh and SouTh ATlanTic, NorTh and SouTh Rac- ific, MediTerranean, NorTh Sea, Red Sea, China Sea, Rersian Gulf, and lndian Ocean. She has com- pleTed eighT cruises To The MediTerranean, one To SouTh America, one oTher cruise around The world and several visiTs To our immediaTe neighbors oT Canada, CenTral America, and The WesT Indies. The SAMUEL B. ROBERTS is currenTly a uniT of DesTroyer Squadron TWENTY-EOUR, Des- Troyer EloTilla TWO, Cruiser DesTroyer Eorce, U.S. ATlanTic EleeT. She is The TirsT ERAM l des- Troyer To be homeporTed in NewporT, Rhode lsland. f44k'k4k4f4x,'k4i'Ky44k'Y tf4t,k tfftiki 1k'k4ti:K it 'ktxfiiiiixffi i +1 4 4 1+ ir ,K +1 mf fkvkxly 4 'PK l1'i'44'

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One could say the cruise began not as might be expected with our departure from Newport, Rhode Island late in September, but over a month earlier. We were in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, undergoing a very difficult refresher training period, following shipyard overhaul earlier in the year. On the thirteenth of August, a Friday, with much training still ahead of us, we received an or- der to return immediately to Newport. No reason was given. We arrived in Newport the following week and began a month of tender availability. We still had no firm news of the reason for the change of plans but we heard plenty of rumors of what was in store for us. One month later the rumors became the truth. We were told that in one week we would be leaving for the Western Pacific to ease the workload on the ships of the Pacific Fleet operat- ing off Vietnam. We couldn't tell anyone, but most families knew our destination before we did. We spent our final few days preparing for deployment, arid, for those of us who were newly arrived on board, in becoming familiar with our home for the next six months. On 29 September we left Newport with five other ships of Destroyer Squadron Twenty-four, amid the sounds of a Navy band and the good-byes of our loved ones. . sxI?,,. . I' in 'sf' l l ii -C ,Sw ugly - ll X as f 1 , AMPS gg, bl lQ,,TX -5 '5 1 l,.. 'il Li' ' tl e we w e l metgt- ii, ...M '2'f1, f - A :LJ g ff .H ,iii xxx S-fs. T' ff 'Z xx 3?