Shreveport (LPD 12) - Naval Cruise Book

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5 ti ' Day--not in America, but here Danish pastby, wa1king shopping streets, bo- tent beer and akvavit, and the HKat,H the ship was visited by over 15,000 visitors in connection with the 1argest ce1ebration of American Independence Aa1borg. Danny Kaye visited the ship, the Queen of Denmark moored her roya1 yacht DANEBROG just in front of the SHREVEPORT. SHREVEPORT was underway 1001, 05 Ju1y, and moored star- board side to pitch house jetty, Roya1 Dockyard, Ports- mouth, Eng1and, at 0927, 07 Ju1y, within fu11 view of HMS VICTORY. There were free tours, a sai1ing competi- tion and crickett match with the Brits, and many 1oca1 citizens took SHREVEPORT officers, chiefs, and sai1ors into their homes and the 1oca1 countryside. SHREVEPORT sai1ed 0811, 12 Ju1y, and after training the E midshipmen at sea for five days, moored port side to Harbor Station Pier, Le Havre, France, 1025, 17 Ju1y. There were free tours to the Benedictine disti11eries and museum at Fecamp and the famous D-Day Normandy Beaches nearby. The ship was underway 1005, 21 Ju1y, enroute home, mooring at South Annex, Norfo1k, Va., at 1021, 02 August 1972.

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ous maneuvers with the SHBEVEPDRT BLUL team, lGd by the Captain coming out in first place, the ship partlC1DGFEd the next week, 0l - 06 May, in VENUS II, 5 J0l0t exefclse with Venezuelans. Rear Admiral Delgado, the Venezuelan senior Marine Corps 0fficer, toured SHREVEPORT 03 May. 04 May was both R and DuDay, and the shin was underway 060l. 05 May for St. Thomas Island, mooring starboard side to Nest Indian Dock, Charlotte Amalie, at 0945 the same day, for a one-day visit, long enough for practically everyone aboard to purchase his one gallon of tax-free liouor to be brought back to the States Cwhich may only be done by vis- iting one of the Virgin Islandsl. The ship was underway l50l, 06 May, conducted an UNREP with USS MILWAUKEE on O9 May--the same day Haiphong Harbor was mined, and moored at Morehead City, l4l3, ll May. Most of the embarked Marines of BLT 2X6 moved aboard USS NASHVILLE and Major General Fred HAYNES, CG, 2nd MARDIV, embarked USS SHREVEPDRT to- gether with his staff of about a dozen bird and light col- onels for six days while the ship particiiited l ith if El Oflfl W about 20 other ships in EXDAN V. The ship went to General Quarters at 2200, l7 Ma ' y, as we entered a simulated mine field, anchored off 0nslow Beach 0239 and remained at G0 all of l8 May until the Marines departed that afternoon. The ship moored l046 2l V - , say, port side to Pier 3, Navy Base, Norfolk. SHREVEPDRT was out 05 June to load ammunition. and depar- ted l2 June at 0746 with emba . rked Midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, on NATRONLANT 72, with 2,361 miles to go before ' ' ' . arriving at Santa Marta Island, NzoreS, where she anchored l006, 20 June, off Vila do Porto to off-load some CB gear while some ' ' , two bars of the quiet l'ttl t Sa11OrS V1SitQd the On1y g i i e ow . Tl sl 0830 21 June and aft n ie iip was underway Change, d Q , , ef proceeding through the English an the Limfgorden moored 0932 l 2 I 9 ' ,,-, LU , ' . borg, Denmark. while at the veri f ' ' ne at Nal i ith its i y riendly town, w'

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XX Xt. A X .t f ' I- .-. , -2 , l . z .aw it K x 0 X 5 Rain X f 'gf ., 4 gl-,.f1ffgj s gfl' ,3- V , .x,,., v,f..A M53 c,.,v: i Quartermasters determine the shir J's locaticni in tirni an , -5' f spaceg they are responsible for plotting where the fhih lS and is going, and they are responsible for maintaining ac curate time calibration throughout the shin. while at sea, the shi ' ' ' ' p s position may he plotted nsino the SPNa4O LORAN receiver which can ' tune in on signals trans- mitted by a Hmasteru and a Hslaveu station. My weasufihn the time differences between pulses and naino special charts, the position of the ship may he determined. NOV- mally a LORAN reading is taken every hour while at sea. Another method of determining the ship'e pouition is by using the sextant which accurately measure: the Htocal Hour Angleu of the sun CLHAD. By usinu thr IHA and the Nautical Almanac the ship's position may he amcerlained. Longitude may UG determined only around noon: latitude is determined by shooting mornino stars about Qu mgnpipg hg- fore sunrise and shooting eveninn gimp, Hhuug pm minotes after sunsetnmif there is a horizon. The Navigation department also utiliyen nm on non in Soon' dlng Set, Sonar, to determine ocean denlhn, ihw unin is equipped with two ch Y'OVlOVlC'fPl I r 1 --1 S wilch ore wound evrrv id!