Tirante (SS 420) - Naval Cruise Book

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Having set sail for Rota, Spain 16 AUG-l SEP by way of Lisbon, Portugal, TIRANTE was on her way after months of hard work preparing for The initial 12 hours uneventful. By the time Island, north of Miami, of watches and further broken out and read, began being comsumed fying. In order to break planning but the MED deployment. of steaming up the Keys we made the turn above things were settled down was fast but Grand Bahama to a routine preparations for the MED, Pubs were books of miscellaneous subject matter by all and the qualification of non-qual- the routine and further our spirit of competition throughout the crossing,TIRANTE HOlympicianH were held.Due to our inability to feature track and field eventsfwe were hot to trot but delete, reorganized olympics to fit our events included Acey After numerous cross finally decided. The had no track to run on? we had to expand, and change the traditional landlubbers sea-going capabilities. The final list of Ducey,Cribbage, Bingo, and Arm Wrestling. playing and elimination the winners were five Gold Medalists in Bingo were YNECSSD PETERSON- ftwiceb, Ensign GRAGG, ETRlfSSD LAVELLE, ETCS KSSP MCANALLY and STS2fSSD REED. STCKSSD SALVETER emerged as a double champion, Cribbage and Acey Ducey. Our games ended with the heavy CBrobdignagianD and light CLilliputianJ Arm Wrestling Championships, MM3CSSD nBig Alu SHATNEY and TM3nLean and Meann BRAXTON. ' Saturday morning TIRANTE pulled into Lisbon,Portugal. Sighting land after an extended time at sea somehow is no different now than the way we have read it was back in Magellan's Day. It's a grand feeling. Everyone took advantage of the fine wine, clean city and the warm hospitality extended by the Portugese. The consensus evaluation of Lisbon could be summed up in seven words, Ha great place to come back ton. After leaving Lisbon, Sunday morning, we completed our transit of the Atlantic by pulling into Rota, Spain monday morning . It took a lot shown that our Entering the equivalent to of work to get this far, but the results have preparations were thorough. MED for us on the 3rd of September is our returning to school and it's at nearly the same time. We've still much to learn. I'm confident that we'll receive an A plus report card.

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ENLISTED TART, K. F. TIERNEY, W. B. TOMLIN, W. F. TURNER, J. W. VILMIN, W. L. WAHL, C. F. WARZECHA, M. S REEDS, J. M. HARRIS, W. G. ENQCSS7 WEIR, A. P. ENlfSSD WEST, S. w. FNCSUD WILLIAMS, w. M. ICBQSUD WIRKALA, A. C. RMBCSSJ YONNICK. D. J. EMZQSSP ZIMMERMAN, R. A SNCSSD TOPITS, J. w. STSQCSSP LAVELLE, J. P. CSSRKSUD FNCSSD SNCSSD ICZCSSD IClfSSJ ENZCSSQ ENFNCSUJ ENQCSSD ETlfSSD

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It's news time again. Since so much has happened since the last letter, I'll try to fill you in as best as I can. Pulling into Rota, Spain on August 30, provided a welcomed chance of scenery, that of dusty brown instead of salty blue. Land always feels good, regardless. A mini up-keep commenced upon arrival with USS HOLLAND AS-32 personnel coming aboard as soon as the brow was over, long hours' were required in certain areas putting final touches and tweeks on the equipments particularly radio. Chief MELSON, as you know isn't to tall to begin with, but by the time we departed Rota, he was even less tall. The radiomen leterally worked themselves into a coma. After having barely learned how to convert Hgreen backsn into escudos, we were faced with the new challenge of converting pesetas, the Spanish version of exchange. The pesetas are now common knowledge, having practiced with it for six days. Before our trip is over, I'm sure we will be faced with many frustrating hours, not of deciding whether or not to buy, but deciding how much we actually paid. We were proud and happy to approve advancement of Chief McANALLY to Senior Chief and STSN SEELBINDER to STS3 on September l, l97l. Before leaving Rota, qualification swim call was held for CS2 Cssb Don GAULDEN, QMSNCSSD Rick GEORGE, and LTJG Charlie GRAGG, later having swam for his HJGH stripes. But now we have no bonafied Ensign. From what I heard the water was cold, dirty and salty but a pleasant relief after months of hard work with late hours in learning the boat and how to be a submariner, I'm sure many of you have participated, in part, in this program and you, too, are to be congratulated. Sunday, September 3,we left Rota and entered the Mediterranean sea. During the transit towards San Remo, Italy,a small resort town on the Italian Riviera, we operated with various DD's and air craft, providing them with ASWEX Anti-Submarine Warfares Exercise Services oftem referred to as sonar Hping timen. it was time well spent getting back to actual submarine type operations and not just transiting. Monday morning, September lh, we were welcomed to San Remo by many friendly enthusiatic towns people and two visiting Key Westers my wife Marygrace, and LTJG Charlie GRAGG's wife Carol-During OUT Stay many of the crew took as the local area of. San Remo. The people of San Remo were most hospitable, SO1ng to great extents to communicate with us. Our Italian Heritage Representative ENICSSD Tom SIRECI was in his glory taking only moments to refresh himself before entering into