Ticonderoga Apollo Recovery (CVS 14) - Naval Cruise Book

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Though TICONDEROGA had enough fuel and food to last for a long time, nothing could be left to chance. So, on Z4 April, three days before astronauts Young, Mattingly, and Duke were due to splash down, TICO rendezvoused with another member of the Pacific Recovery Force, USS PONCHATOULA KAO-1481, for an underway replenishment. PCNCHATOULA was commissioned 12 January 1956 at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. As with all Navy oilers, she is named after a river, the Ponchatoula River, which flows through Tongipahoa Parish in Louisiana. - During a 1966-1967 deployment to the Western Pacific, PONCHATOULA set a Pacific Fleet record by bringing 503 ships alongside, and refueling 464. During the following cruise, which ended in June 1968, she established another record, when she pumped over 74 million gallons of petroleum products to customer ships during that deployment. Over 700,000 gallons of black oil were fed to the Big T , enough to easily see her through to San Diego. ln addition to the fuel, a new set of movies was hauled aboard. To top off the whole sunny affair, the COMNAVAIRPAC Band was on hand to celebrate PONCHATOULPUS renderings with a few musical renderings of their own. PONCHATOULA served the Pacific Recovery Forces as the Primary Logistic Support Unit. Holiday Routine, and thenUNREP M -mf Q.-,f . , -

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23, 24 Aprll Sunday, 23 April 1972 saw TICONDEROGA and her crew observing a day of holiday routine, a day of much needed rest after an extremely busy 18 hour-a-day work week. ' It was on this day that the happy crew enjoyed a barbeque, unfortunately, the barbeque couldn't be held on the flight deck as planned because of some unscheduled rain showers. The problem was ,solved immediately in typical TICO can-do tradition-the barbeque went on as planned, steaks, hamburgers, hotdogs and all the trimmings were enjoyed by all in what was probably the first barbeque SlMEX to be held aboard this proud ship.

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