Stevenson (DD 645) - Naval Cruise Book

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20305116 5 Port oi Departure Destination Miles Brooklyn, N. Y. to Oyster Bay, N. Y. C177 mi.1 ....... Oyster Bay, N. Y. to Buzzard Bay, N. Y. C30 rni.1 ..... Buzzard Bay, N. Y. to Casco Bay, Maine C127 mi.1. . . Casco Bay, Maine to Cape Cod, R. I. C120 mi.1 ...... Cape Cod, B. I. to Casco Bay, Maine C120 mi.1 ..... Casco Bay, Maine to Newport, R. I. C150 mi.1 ........ Newport, R. I. to Brooklyn, N. Y. C155 mi.1 ........... .. .- -....-. Sandy Hook, N. Y. to Casablanca, Morocco C3160 mi.1 ...... Casablanca, Morocco to Brooklyn, N. Y. C3174 mi.D. . Brooklyn, N. Y. to Norfolk, Va. C260 mi.1 ............ Norfolk, Va. to Brooklyn, N. Y. C260 mi.1 ............ .... .- .. .- Sandy Hook, N. Y. to Casablanca, Morocco C3160 mi.1 ...... Casablanca, Morocco to Brooklyn, N. Y. C3174 mi.D. . Brooklyn, N. Y. to Norfolk, Va. C260 mil ............ Norfolk, Va. to Casablanca, Morocco C3200 mi.D ..... Casablanca, Morocco to Gibraltar C166 mi.1 ...... Gibraltar to Brooklyn, N. Y. C3347 mi.D ........... Brooklyn, N. Y. to Casco Bay, Maine C292 mi.1 .... Casco Bay, Maine to Norfolk, Va. C541 mi.D ......... Norfolk, Va. to Casablanca, Morocco C3200 mil ..... Casablanca, Morocco to Gibraltar C166 mi.1 ...... Gibraltar to Brooklyn, N. Y. C3347 rni.1 ........... Brooklyn, N. Y. to New London, Conn. C155 mi.1 ..... New London, Conn. to Norfolk, Va. C360 mi.1 ........ u . . 0 . . n 1 Norfolk, Va. to Casablanca, Morocco C3200 mi.1 ..... Casablanca, Morocco to Brooklyn, N. Y. C3174 mi.1. .. Brooklyn, N. Y. to Norfolk, Va. C260 mi.1 ...... 1. . . . Norfolk, Va. to Panama, Balboa-side C1822 mi.1 ...... Panama, Balboa-side to Galapaaos Island C900 mi.1. .... .- Galapagos Island to Bora Bora, Society Is. C4000 mi.1. Bora Bora, Society Is. to Suva, Fiji Islands C1900 mi.1. . Suva, Fiji Islands to Milne Bay, New Guinea C1740 mi.1 ..... Milne Bay, New Guinea to Buna, New Guinea C60 mi Buna, New Guinea to Los Nearos, Admiralty Is. C500 Los Neqros, Admiralty Is. to Buna, New Guinea C500 Buna, New Guinea to Los Neqros, Admiralty ls. C500 Los Nearos, Admiralty ls. to Buna, New Guineaq C500 510 C510 C510 C510 Buna, New Guinea to Seeadler Harbor, Manus Seeadler Harbor, Manus to Buna, New Guinea Buna, New Guinea to Seeadler Harbor, Manus Seeadler I-Iarbor, Manus to Buna, New Guinea ...g-. ..-... .1... mil: rni.1. .. mi.1. .. mi.1 .... mil. mi.1 .... mi.1 Buna, New Guinea to Manus, Admiralty ls. C510 rni.1. .. Manus, Admiralty Is. to 1-lollandia, N. Guinea C400 mi.1 1-lollandia, N. Guinea to Buna, New Guinea C745 rni.1. . . Buna, New Guinea to Cape Creten, N. Guinea C220 Cape Creten, N. Guinea to I-Iollandia, New Guinea mi.1 C540 .... H..:480A4 mil. Departed Arrived .12-29-42 .12-30-42 1- 3-43 . 1- 6-43 . 1- 6-43 . 2- 4-43 . 2- 8-43 . 3-31-43 . 4-23-43 . 5-20-43 . 5-23-43 . 5-28-43 . 6-22-43 . 7-24-43 . 7-28-43 . 8-13-43 . 8-18-43 . 9-16-43 . 9-21-43 . 9-26-43 .10-16-43 .10-19-43 .11-17-43 .11-19-43 .11-24-43 .12-18-43 . 1-16-44 . 1-23-44 . 1-30-44 . 2- 1-44 . 2-14-44 . 2-19-44 . 2-26-44 . 2-27-44 . 2-29-44 3- 7-44 mi.D .... . 3- 9-44 . 3-14-44 3-23-44 'f 33044 4- 1-44 4-17-44 4-20-44 4-22-44 5- 1-44 5- 3-44 I-lollandia, New Guinea to Buna, New Guinea C745 mi.1 ...... Buna, New Guinea to Cape Creten, N. Guinea C220 mi.1 ..... Cape Creten, N. Guinea to Hollandia, New Guinea C540 mi.1. 1-Iollandia, New Guinea to Wadke, New Guinea C140 mi.1. . . Wadke, New Guinea to Iflollandia, New Guinea C140 mi.1.. Hollandia, New Guinea to Wadke, New Guinea C140 69 I'I'11.1. . . 5- 7-44 5- 9-44 . 5-12-44 . 5-16-44 . 5-17-44 12-30-42 1- 2-43 1- 3-42 1- 6-42 1- 7-43 2- 5-43 2- 9-43 4-19-43 5-10-43 5-22-43 5-26-43 6-15-43 7-12-43 7-26-43 8-13-43 8-18-43 9- 5-43 9-17-43 9-23-43 10-13-43 10-17-43 11- 6-43 11-17-43 11-21-43 12-12-43 1- 4-44 1-18-44 1-28-44 2- 1-44 2-13-44 2-19-44 2-24-44 2-26-44 2-29-44 3- 1-44 3- 9-44 3-11-44 3-16-44 3-24-44 4- 1-44 4- 2-44 4-20-44 4-22-44 4-25-44 5- 1-44 5- 3-44 5- 5-44 5- 9-44 5-12-44 5-16-44 5-17-44 5-18-44

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s..s,.,.,...m.e1-.... .... an... ..: NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1945. arch for a 1946 Candidate to Defeat Mar. Qi Big lVlo's Kid Sister Sheds Her Barnacles Lt. Comdr. Mark Varland, skipper ot the Stevenson. Bar, Candy Store, Theater Held Up Despite a spectacular hcldup in the Grand Central Terminal area yesterday, a barrooin holdup in Manhattan and two stlckups in Brooklyn, crime took a sharp drop in the clty during the last 24 hours. Only 27 persons, five of them juveniles, were in today's police lineup. Police found no trace of the armed man who held up eight persons in the third-floor offices of the General Pwblic Loan Co. at 120 W. 42nd St. yesterday and es- caped with 5800. But they did collar GeorZe Rip- ple, 33, of Cleveland, Ohio., who they charged with picking the pocket of Carolyn Butleman, of North Bergen, N. J., as she sat ln the Capitol Theater, Broadway and 51st St. Police of the pick- pocket squad were in the theater and watched Ripple change seats several times before he opened the handbag of Miss Butleman. A detective grabbed his wrist as he started up the aisle. In his hand was 315. While half a dozen patrons drank at the Darby Bar and Grill, Inc., at 118 E. 125th St., a man followed the manager, Philip Geisenhelmer, into the kitchen and robbed him of 8350. Then he left through the barroom after warning the manager against an outcry. Brooklyn police are searching for two armed men, one of whom held up and robbed a girl ticket seller at the Fox Movie Theater at 12 Flatbush Ave. of 365 and another who stuck up a candy store at 1705 80th St. and took 537. 5 Crew members scrape the bottom ot the USS Stevenson, the Galloping Ghost ot the New Guinea Coast, at the U. S. Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn. w,,,1d.-f,1,,,.m Pho... by p,1.,,,.,,,,, By EDWARD J. MOWERY, World-Telegram Staff Writer. Not a drum rolled the other day at the U. S. Naval Shipyard, Bklyn., when the Galloping Ghost of the New Guinea Coast slid her weary way into drydock after 32 months at sea. She had barnacles clinging to her bow fathom markings, but not a scratch on her bridge. She never got a. Nazi or Jap plane or sub- marine. But she's proud of her six battle stars. This was the homecoming of the USS Stevenson, the destroyer work horse of the 'Ith and 3rd Fleets. The dull, unglamorous kid sister of Big Mo, the Tennessee and the Califomia. Log Belles Skipper. Lt. Cmdr. Mark Varland of Rockford, Ill., 27-year-old skipper of the Ghost, protested that there wa.sn't much of interest about her. He grinned, however, when he said it. The Stevenson's log goes like this: Five round trip convoy chores in the Atlantic before join- ing the Pacific 7th Fleet's 16th Destroyer Squadron: in the naval van of Gen. MacArthur's historic dash up the New Guinea coast: bombarded shorelines in the Ad- miralty Islands in support of troopsg supported landings at Hol- landla, Wake, Blak, Noemfoor, Sansapor, Wewak, Guadalcanal, Pelellu, Anguar, Iwo Jlma, Okl- nawa . . . and Tokyo. The Ghost's crewmen-all under 31-had their own Fourth of July jubilee last year when they slugged Noemfoor with concentrated fire. And for 65 days prior to the Jap capitulation in Tokyo Bay, the Ghost darted up and down. the Jap coast in support of Adm. Hal- sey's lethal fleet strikes at the heart of Nippon. When the cease fire order rattled through the ship Aug. 15. the crew discovered they had been in battle over a stretch of 190,000 miles, in all oceans, and had never been hit! The galling part was having no scalps on the bridge! End of an Odyssey. Today, the Stevenson, fresh from escorting the Tennessee and California over 15,000 miles of ocean C51 days? on one of the war's most amazing itineraries, waits patiently for someone to throw in the towel. She came back from Tokyo Bay via Manila, Singapore, Malacca Straits, Cey- lon, Cape of Good Hope, Capetown, etc. Her crew, weary from hoisting shells and flecking radar specks from the heavens, enjoyed movies topside. They swapped, battered and maneuvered loot from pros- trate Jap ships. They had one crap game where a gentleman from Indiana became S1200 richer. Messrs. Thomas, Heuer and Puts of the crew pulled out a Jap destroyer's big wheel which they hacked off the dead duck in Tokyo Bay. The wheel was nailed to the wardroom wall. They had gunnery and pistol prac- tice. And then someone calmly announced, as the Stevenson was off St. Helena, that a lady was aboard. She really wasn't a lady, Lt. Robert Mather, Chicago. gunnery officer, grinned today. She was Geisha, a lady dog. And do you know what Geisha did? She had two kids. Just like that! Resting on a. Farm. Geisha is now convalescent on a Long Island farm. They scraped the rust off the Ghost's belly today and every- one felt bad. A drydock is some- tlmes like limbo. Especially when your ship has no glamour! But then, there's always a rain- bow when fellows like Storekeeper 2!C Gale Evers, 21, of Anaheim. Calif., are around. Whitey Evers for years to come can point to his left ear and tell his grandchildren: This is my Asiatic Duty Award. It's a nice, Singapore earring. I had one of the guys in the work- shop put it in. He just used a sewing needle and a pair of pliers. Honest, lt didn't hurt a bltl BarNames Navy Man Lt. Paul B. DeWitt, USNR, now on terminal leave, was appointed executive secretary of the Bar of the Clty of New York, it was an- nounced yesterday. He was for- merly assistant secretary of the American Judicature Society. fr liar 'Giffedf Givi. ngf. . B. ALTMAN at co. I i ie S S Storekeeper 2fC Gale Evers sports an earring. C Elliott Roosevelt ln Radio Venture BV Ihr Associated Prem. HOT SPRINGS, Ark.. Dec. 13.-- Elliott Roosevelt has alminority interest in a new. 250 watt radio station which has been authorized for Camden, Ark., and will serve as a vice president in the enter- prise. Leon Wilson, treasurer of Camden Radio, Inc., announced last night. Mr. Wilson said the firm in- corporated with 510,000 worth of stock, and that Mr. Roosevelt had paid his subscription of stock in full. The late Presidents son had not been promised a bonus for advisory service, Mr. Wilson added. The corporation, Mr. Wilson said, was recently authorized to construct the station and was as- signed a frequency of 1450 silo- cycles, with time unlimited. Accuse Handyman Ot Stealing Sl80 A 25-year-old Brooklyn handy- man was under a grand larceny charge today in the theft of 5180 from a money drawer at the Lef- court Shoe Co., 400 Madison Ave. Arrest of the suspect, Harrison Dean, of 375 Macon St., came dur- ing an investigation by police into the systematic stealing of the f1rm's S27 shoes and their resale at S6 a pair. Dean was charged only with the money theft. Sta ol the