Uss leahy cruise book

Navy photo from the uss leahy cg16 19841985 cruise book available at. Unfollow uss america cruise book to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. Us navy cruise books are unofficial publications published by a ships crew to document a cruise or deployment. Uss leahy cruise books complete, uss leahy sisters uss leahy. Bolger graduated from the united states naval academy in 1964. The following awards have been verified by opnavnote 1650 of 09 mar 01. Captain kerr has served at sea in uss bon homme richard cva 31, uss walke dd 723, uss leahy dlg 16, and on the staff, commander cruiser destroyer flotilla nine. Rgm84 harpoon missile was fired from a mk 141 missile launcher 1982. It embodied leahys distinguished record of performance and timeliness, challenging all who served aboard her to continue the tradition of excellence by ready to perform every assigned task. As with uss long beach cgn9 and uss enterprise cvn65, bainbridge was the only member of its singleship class. Admiral reeves is also known as the father of carrier warfare. Cruise books in the navy department librarys collection.

The worden was the third ship in the leahy class of doubleend guided missile cruisers. You would be purchasing an exact copy of the uss mobile cruise book during world war ii. They include the volumes in the navy department librarys collection, the nations largest cruise book collection. Leahy, she was commissioned on 4 august 1962 as dlg16, a guided missile frigate, and reclassified as cg16, a guided missile cruiser, on 30 june 1975. Uss leahy cg 16 dlg 16 class guided missile cruiser admiral. You would be purchasing the uss leahy dlg 16 cruise book during this time period. Upon commissioning, he served aboard uss leahy dlg16 as asw officer, navigator, 1st lt. Leahy, she was commissioned in 4 august 1962 as dlg16, a frigate, and reclassified as cg16, a cruiser, on 30 june 1975. Leahy mooring at pier 88 in new york city during a midshipmans cruise, 10. He has commanded uss hawkins dd 873 and uss kinkaid dd 965. Home page of the uss josephus daniels dlgcg 27, belknap class guided missile cruiser of the us navy altantic fleet. You will be able to zoom in to better read names etc. Edwards was one of many destroyers whose crew published a cruise book after world war ii.

Uss leahy dlgcg16 was the lead ship of a new class of destroyer leaders in the united states navy. Aft view of uss leahy cg16 underway at sea on 17 january 1983 6408652. Navy cruise books for various years and ships from 1919 to 2009. A leahy pictogram was published in august 1972 with. Uss bainbridge cgn25 was a nuclearpowered development of the leahyclass. A woman contacted us wanting to purchase the 1968 uss long beach westpac cruise book for her father, who served aboard during that period. My name is clair buckingham and i was on the ship from the shakedown until 1952. This is the cruise book of the uss worden cg18 on her westpac cruise 21 march to 22 october, 1983. Cruise books are yearbookstyle books put together by volunteers on board ship to commemorate a deployment. I have the 19511952 cruise book which is the first one you list and i dont remember any ones for the first two cruises in 1949 and 1950.

Ship name, hull number, year of cruise or publication. This cruise book for the 1964 med cruise was graciously loaned by patrick cahill. Maiden cruise 1962 mediterranean cruise 1963 world cruise 1964 operation sea orbit westpac cruise 1965 66 westpac cruise 1966 67 westpac cruise 1968 westpac cruise 1969 westpac cruise 1971 72 westpac cruise 1972 73 westpac cruise 1974 75 westpac cruise 1976 77 westpac cruise 1978 westpac cruise 1982 83 westpac cruise 1984 85. Uss leahy dlgcg16 was the lead ship of a new class of destroyer leaders in the united. I maintain a contact record for all participating shipmates, including email info. Uss cruiser for sale historical memorabilia collectibles. Printing is also easily possible because of the high resolution 300dpi and the missing watermarks. Uss saint paul ca73 1959 westpac cruise book flagship 7th fleet heavy cruiser. Uss bainbridge cgn25 was a nuclearpowered development of the leahy class. From 1962 to 1993, leahy operated as a unit of the atlantic fleet 19621976 and the pacific fleet 19761993. The item vintage monogram 1973 uss leahy 82960225 guided missile frigate ship model kit is in sale since saturday, october 24, 2015.

Vintage monogram 1973 uss leahy 82960225 guided missile. Originally a guided missile destroyer leader, the class was redesignated guided missile cruiser in 1975. Uss leahy cruisebooks online for some shipmates, this is the only source of cruisebook infotheir original books being lost in thefts, household moves, house fires, attics, earthquakes, tornados, pawn shops, flea markets, huge basements, us postal service mixups, ebay, floods or divorce actions, etc. Here you can download the uss leahy cg 16 westpac cruise book 198485 as a high resolution. To help id the page, the front cover is considered page 1.

Oct 27, 2015 the item vintage monogram 1973 uss leahy 82960225 guided missile frigate ship model kit is in sale since saturday, october 24, 2015. Uss jason ar8 cruise book westpac cruise 1983 jason returns to westpac following an overhaul in 1982 the jason visited ports in japan korea philippines hawaii includes identified division photos 9 x 11 hardcover in good condition thank you for looking the photos show the actual item being sold. Uss leahy fires a rur5a asroc from her mk 16 launcher 1983. Leahy returns in september and undergoes her first major overhaul since re. Uss barton dd722 1,595 words case mismatch in snippet view article the entry can be found here. Uss reeves was built by the puget sound naval shipyard, bremerton, wa. Uss leahy cg 16 westpac cruise book 198485 operations. Back to uss leahy cg 16 westpac cruise book 198485 page. Us navy cruise books the largest online collection of. Uss leahy dlg16, later cg 16 was named in honor of fleet admiral leahy.

Built by bath iron works in bath, maine, uss leahy was the first of its class of nine guided missile cruisers. Each page has been placed on a cd for years of enjoyable computer viewing. Vietnam navy uss saint paul ca73 cruise book 7th fleet westpac. Each page has been placed on a cd for years of enjoyable computer. The cd comes in a plastic sleeve with a custom label. Navy photo 1 from the uss leahy cg16 19841985 cruise book available at. He initiated advanced war planning to deal with potential hostilities with germany and japan and promoted a robust u. Uss leahy cg16 cruiser westpac deployment cruise book year log 1983. It embodied leahy s distinguished record of performance and timeliness, challenging all who served aboard her to continue the tradition of excellence by ready to perform every assigned task. Rare cruise books like this sell for a hundred dollars or more when buying the actual hard copy. Media in category uss leahy cg 16 the following 22 files are in this category, out of 22 total. The book is presented here complete 6mb with his kind permission. Abraham lincoln cvn72 198890, 1991, 1993, 199495, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 200203, 200405, 2006, 2008, 201011, 201112. Uss belknap dlg 26 cruise book on cd 196970 rare usn.

The number of copies of a cruise book is very limited. Several commands only order copies for about 23 of the crew as a rule of thumb. Uss leahy cg 16, uss mispillion ao 105 and uss sample ff 1048 underway 1980. The keel was laid december 3, 1959, and leahy was commissioned august 4, 1962 at boston naval shipyard. On february 1971, a uss leahy change of command ceremony takes place in naples, italy.

Creating those books is an old tradition in the us navy. Sasebo, subic bay, singapore, fremantlepearth, diego garcio, and hong kong. The second uss reeves was leahyclass guided missile frigate officially classified as a destroyer leader dlg later reclassified as a cruiser cg that was named for vice adm. Uss leahy cg16 leahy dlg16 was laid down by bath iron works corp. Unfollow uss cruise book to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. You would be purchasing the during this time period. If anyone has a copy to sell, let us know and well connect you. If you are interest in any photo shown below, i have the original scans of this book, and i will gladly email it to you. Great deals from u s naval history store in ebay stores. Leahy, she was commissioned on 4 august 1962 as dlg16, a guided missile frigate, and reclassified as cg16, a guided missile cruiser, on 30 june 1975 from 1962 to 1976, leahy operated as a unit of the atlantic fleet and from 1976 to 1993 as a unit of the.

Cruise books were published for all major deployments except 1972 and 1975. The images on this site were scanned from the copy of executive officer bill vose capt. Higherresolution versions of these photos from the collection of shipmate doug turpen and public domain sources, some with captions identifying individual shipmates, are linked from the thumbnail images below. Bring the cruise book to life with this multimedia presentation. Uss leahy lucky bag site wantsrequests uss leahy shipmate locator.