Tirante (SS 420) - Naval Cruise Book

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STATISTICS Miles steamed surfaced in Med ............. Miles steamed from homeport to homeport... Miles steamed submerge Total dives d ............ Simulated t5ig5A5 firings:::..'.... Total ports visited... Days in port ......... Days at sea ........... Officers qualified .... Enlisted qualified .... Total money spent on camera.eduipment:::. Total meals fed ....... Officers onboard ...... Total enlisted onboard Lisbon,Portuga1 Rota, Spain San Remo, Italy Naples, Italy Athens, Greece Iraklion, Crete Toulon, France Port Mahon,Menorca Barcelona, Spain Rota, Spain PORTS VISITED Aug Aug Sep Sep Oct Oct Nov Nov Nov Nov ....5001 ...15965 ....2224 .....70 ....2O0 ...10 .33.1 ....59.8 .....1 ....14 S2554 ...'.9729 .....8 ...72 Aug Sep Sep Oct Oct Nov Nov 71 Nov 71 Nov 71 Dec 71 71 71 71 71 71 71

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We arrived in the rain as usual, but received a hearty welcome from the Iraklion Air Force Detachment. They quickly answered our questions and provided us with other assistance we needed. The highlight of the visit was the Temple of Knossis, about h,ooo years old. Purchases of souvenirs, coupled with our very successful Hrock huntn enabled Iraklion to become TIRANTE's most weight gaining POTP 50 far' We ran out of weights utilized to sink trash at sea. The local populations thought we were sort of wierd loading the crew's Mess with 500 five pound rocks. Prior to leaving Monday. l November, our swimming list was shortened considerably, with LTJG Elmer MANN and LTJG Ed STINSON receiving belated dunkings for ss quais and making LTJG, SNCSS7 Dave KOENIG' and FTG3CSS5 Randy RHYMAN tested their dolphins in the IRAKLION blue. Tuesday we commenced our last big operation of the MED deployment. This was a large exercise CNational Week? with the majority of the U. S. SIXTH Fleet units participating. Once again, we played the role of the opposition. Much of our times was spent submerged, with snorkel battery charges becoming as common as eating. At the completion of the exercise, Tuesday, 9 November, we surfaced and headed north for two days in Toulon, France. The transit was the longest of our deployment, with waves no smaller than large houses. A few of us, in one degree or another, paid tribute to HMr O'ROURKEH. Finally arriving in Toulon on Saturday the 13th, we received a warm welcome from the French Submariners. Sea stories as well as uniforms were swapped to such a degree that some, to us, appeared more French than UQS. The visit was short but fun and the sun, for a change, shined brightly in a crisp fall atmosphere. Unfortunately, our mail has not gotten to us for about three weeks primarily due to short inport periods. Please bear with us as we attempt to have it catch up with us prior to our arrival in Fort-Mahon. We departed Toulon, France l6 NOV-l DEC Monday morning, l5 November l97l after our brief two day visit and proceeded to participate in our final exercise of the trip. Isle D'or, a NATO exercise involving many ships of many nations, and as usual, we were the opposition. It was a good operation with which to complete our schedule. Upon surfacing at the end of the operation, we were faced with the roughest seas and weather seen this far. After several cold and wet watches , with the OOD and lookouts chained to the bridge, the watch was moved to the conn for the remainder of the night and we proceeded enroute Port Mahon, on the Island of Menorca.

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