Staten Island (AGB 5) - Naval Cruise Book

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,M three Japanese DE's, one tanker, one medium passenger- cargo ship, and two freighters. After the war, Captain Smith commanded the U.S.S. BECUNA for over two years, was transferred to the Armed Forces Staff College, and later became the COMSERVLANT Staff Gunnery and Training Officer. He was given command of the STATEN ISLAND in May of 1952, and commanded the ship on Operation Sunec, Sunac, and Nanook dur-in which time the AGB-5 resupplied Alert on Elsmere, Islandg hte Northernmost point any Navy vessel has reached undei its own power. Effective in May 1954 Commander Smith became Captain Frank M. Smith, USNQ and after bein relieved as Commanding Officer of the STATEN ISLANDg in july 1954, he went to Ne R War College. WPOIT, .I. to attend the Naval FRANK M. smlm commnmc orncen Captain Frank M. Smith, a native gf gtan, ford Kentucky, was born on February 15 1913. Upon graduation from the Uniteri States Naval Academy in June uf 1935, he was commissioned an Ensign and assigned to the Battleship MARYLAND, where hg stayed for nearly two years as Assistant Gun- nery Officer. During 1938 and 1939 he serv- ed on the Destroyers U.S.S. DORSEY and U.S.S. CLARKE, commanding the torpedo division. In 1940, a year prior to World War Two, LTIG Smith graduated from the Submarine School at New London Connecticut and re- ported aboard the S-27. He served as Tor- pedo Commander, First Lieutenant, and then Executive Officer, making almost con- tinuous war patrols in Pacific waters after the war broke out. Late in 1942 Lt. Smith was transferred to the S-33, and later to the S-55, making Lieutenant Commander early in 1945. ln August of 1944, he had his own command, the SEALg and, in September, his third stripe. From October 1944 to Feb- ruary 1945 Cdr. Smith was PCO of the U.S.S. BERGALL, and then was transferred to the HAMMERHEAD. As CO of this ship he went on three more war patrols, sinking

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fu October 1946, after attending various HAROLD S. HAMlIN, Jr. COMMANDING OFFICER Commander Harold S. Hamlin, jr. attended Culver Military Academy and the Severn Sthool prior to his appointment to the Naval Academy. He was commissioned an Ensign U5-,on graduation in 1938, and reported aboard gl- U.S.S. IDAHO KBB-425, part of the battle for-ce of the U.S. Fleet then based in the Pacific. ln june of 1939, he joined the l QS.S. MONAGHAN KDD-3543, serving as first Lieutenant until his transfer about a -A -fir later to the U.S.S. HOUSTON CCA-305. v M November of 1940 the HOUSTON became 'li' flagship of the Asiatic Fleet. ln the 1 fly days of World War Two he was Turret Y, .1 wnicer of Turret One during the Battle of the Sea and the Battle of Sunda Strait. ilizrret One was the only turret not lcnocl-:ed by enemy fires, and fired the last heavy an salvos from the ship before it was sunlc. After swimming to land, LTIG Hamlin captured by the lapanese and held wsoner in java, Singapore, Burma and Siam. fi- was promoted to Lieutenant Commander If-'ill release on 29 August 1945, and to Com- ii.uder while still on rehabilitation leave. at-iiools, he joined the U.S.S. TOPEKA -W ,. ak- -. 5 M 'F' .., ., ' - '5 'mtX,. t ':':,,,.. -N 'r 1 .,., fir- . , .... if -L. M E-,ms ':'- 4 ' M.. '11-W... 71 n'.,- ..- a f is fwfr!- ICL-67J as Navigatorg and, after a brief tour, reported to the Bureau of Personnel in August of 1947. Commander Hamlin served as Assistant Officer in Charge of the discipline section and as a member of the Naval Sentence Review and Clemency Board until detached in 1950. He then served as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. RUSH which engaged in the blockade and bombardment of the East Coast of Korea. From February 1952 until July 1954 he served in the Of- fice of the Chief of Naval Operations in the Strategic Plan- ning Section. ln july Commander Hamlin assumed command of the U.S.S. STATEN ISLAND.