Shenandoah (AD 26) - Naval Cruise Book

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I, l 1 sw 'Q Commander David F. Lines was born in Washington, D.C. and received his commission in June 1969 upon graduation from the University of Virginia where he was a NROTC Scholarship student majoring in Chemical Engineering. He assumed his duties as Executive Officer of the Destroyer Tender USS SHENANDOAH QAD 441 on 15 August1983. Previous assignments at sea have included tours as Engineering Officer aboard USS VITAL QMSO 4741, and a split department head tour-first as Chief Engineer on the USS MYLES C. FOX lDD 8291 from September 1976 to October 1978 and then as First Lieutenant on the USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER QCVN 691 from December 1978 to December 1980. He then served as Executive Officer on the USS HARLAN COUNTY QLST 11961 from October 1981 until May 1983. Ashore, he served in Danang, Vietnam from July 1971 until April 1972 as Production Advisor at Naval Support Facility, Danang. From May 1972 to September 1975, CDR Lines taught college as a Naval Science instructor at the University of South Carolina while earning a Master's Degree CMBAI. Alter four months of being assigned to DESTROYER SQUADRON 28, NRF Newport, he attended Department Head School from January to June 1976. He graduated from the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia in June 1981. Commander Lines is authorized to wear the following medals and awards: Navy Commendation Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, Navy Unit Commen- dation Medal, Meritorious Unit Commendation Medal, Republic of Vietnam Navy Staff Service Medal First Class, Navy E Ribbon Q2 devicesl, Navy! Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal, National Defense Ribbon, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon with 1 star, Vietnam Service Medal with 3 Bronze stars, Republic of Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citation lCivil Actions Medal with Palmlg Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal. He is married to the former Mary Deans Way of Richmond, Virginia, and they have one son, Jefferson Brooke. EXECUTIVE OFFICER COMMANDER L DAVID F. LINES

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C IVIMANDI G OFFICER THOMAS M. IVICNICHOLAS, JR. I ., ' l CAPTAIN Captain Thomas M. McNicholas, Jr., was born in Nashville, Tennessee and received his commission in 1961 upon graduation from the Naval Academy. Previous assignments at sea include tours as Damage Control Assistant aboard the destroyer USS ALLEN M. SUMNER CDD 6923, Engineering Officer aboard the destroyer USS JONAS INGRAM fDD 9383, Commanding Officer of the ocean minesweeper USS DIRECT lMSO 4303, Executive Officer of the guided missile cruiser USS WILLIAM H. STANDLEY QCG 323, Commanding Officer of the guided missile destroyer USS BARNEY QDDG 63, and Commanding Officer of the destroyer tender USS PIEDMONT lAD 173. Ashore, Captain McNicholas attended the U.S. Naval Destroyer School and the Command and Staff Course of the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He has also served on the Leadership and Management Committee at the U.S. Naval Academy as an instructor, in the Bureau of Naval Personnel as the Head of the Officer Recall and Release Branch, and in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations as Assistant Head of the Tactical Command and Control Systems Branch. Captain McNicholas attended graduate school at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he earned a Master of Science Degree in Industrial Management. Upon the decommissioning ofthe USS PIEDMONT, Captain McNicholas' next assignment was OIC MTI' for its turnover to the Turkish Navy. He assumed command of the Precommissioning Unit SHENANDOAH QAD 443 located in Norfolk, VA, during December 1982. Captain McNicholas is authorized to wear the following medals and awards: Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Commendation Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, Battle Efhciency E Ribbon, Navy Expeditionary Medal National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, and Sea Service Deployment Ribbon. L ti

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.J .I ET' r T . 2 1. A I, , V ,7 ' . 2.211-f:::::'--1 F-fig-. ' ' . . E .. 1.-, Ax . ..,. . ' ' 'rg L? W, HC ri-QQ, ' 1pi-?fEt:A-+-4.1,dx'.:N-- 4' J, ...af USS SHENANDOAH tZR 19 H923-19253 USS SHENANDOAH KAD 263 C1945-19801 HISTORY OF THE SI'I IP 'S PKEDECESSOKS The first USS SHENANDOAH was a sloop, launched at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 8 December 1862 and commissioned on 20 June 1863. Displacing 1375 tons and 225 feet long, she spent the next 18 months cruising off the East Coast searching and engaging Confederate raiders. ln December, she moved just off Fort Fisher, Wilmington, NC. She distinguished herself in the ensuing bombardment of the fort until it fell to the largest amphibious operation prior to those held in WW ll. She later saw service with the Asiatic Squadron and surveyed several Japanese and Chinese ports. She also saw service with the European Squadron, the South American Squadron, and once again in the Asiatic Squadron, until her decommissioning at Mare Island, California, on 23 October 1886. During the Civil War, the Confederate Navy also had a ship named SHENANDOAH. She was sailed from a British port and outfitted at sea as a steam sloop under LT J. T. Waddell, CSN. CSS SHENANDOAH's mission was to des- troy Northern commerce. She headed forthe Cape of Good Hope to prey on merchantmen and whalers. She took six prizes in the area. Melbourne, Australia was among her ports of call and, after provisioning in January 1865, she took more prizes off the Kurile Islands. Sailing north into the Bering Sea, the crew learned of Lee's surrender from a prize, but continued hostilities near the Arctic Circle. On USS SHENANDOAH 11862-18867 fl B ,fQ..L' X 'XX l x g g . - -Rs :-Sv- ,T::'f--Q'-' S 76 -fe 1:5 w 2 August, nearly six months after the war, a British barque confirmed the war's end. LT Waddell surrendered SHEN- ANDOAH in Liverpool, England, on 6 November, ending the ship's extraordinary career. The airship SHENANDOAH CZR 11, the first rigid, lighter- than-air craft to be designed and built by the U.S. Navy, was 680 feet long and capable of attaining a speed of 60 knots. Built at the Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia, SHENAN- DOAH was christened on 10 October 1923. After being damaged by a storm in January 1924, she reported to the Atlantic Scouting Fleet in August and took part in highly successful tactical exercises. On 2 September 1925, SHEN- ANDOAH departed Lakehurst, New Jersey, and in heavy weather over Ohio on 3 September the airship was destroyed. The fourth SHENANDOAH tAD 261 was an 11,755-ton destroyer tender. She was commissioned on 13 August 1945 and, like us, sailed to the East Coast for duty. She tended her charges at various ports up and down the East Coast until deploying for duty with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. SHENANDOAH's rescue of the crew of a sinking merchantman won her recognition in 1964. Battle efficiency pennants and many departmental E's were among her honors. She was decommissioned on 1 April 1980. CSS SHENANDOAH 11863-18652 Vlll v'-'J S ,. gi.. f 7 iv We 'Af' QT X.. ff