Westward to the Orient - USS Rochester CA-124, 1954
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Quartermasters in action: sextant, semaphore and signal light
Holiday routine: Crew relaxes on deck during a Sunday afternoon in transit to Hawaii
Several pans of leeward Oahu (including Diamond Head) as the Rochester approaches Pearl Harbor.
Entering the channel, the ship passes Hospital Point with Ford Island ahead, and then a carrier moored at Ford Island is passed upon entering the inner harbor.
Sailors pick pineapples during drive around Oahu
Sailors on a rocky shore of windward Oahu managed to get thoroughly soaked, but get even wetter with a dip in a tide pool
The drive continued, with a stop at a windward beach (Kahana Bay)
Windward Oahu is viewed from the Pali lookout, with the sailors getting a bit too close to the precipice.
Driving through Waikiki
Rochester enters Manila Bay and approaches dock
Competition among taxis that refused to accept the notion that sailors preferred to walk
Visit to ruins of old Spanish fort
Downtown Manila
When Rochester crossed the equator south of Singapore, the ship's pollywogs were initiated into the Sacred Order of the Deep. As more pollywogs become shellbacks, they joined in to initiate those following them
Singapore: Views of the city and sailors handling snakes
The approach to Thailand encountered shallow water, so a small Thai naval vessel transported the liberty party up the river to Bangkok
Sailors visiting Bangkok temples. City streets adjacent to the temple grounds were slums. Sailors climb wall to get bananas
Up Saigon River to the city. Rochester nudged her bow into the the river bank above the city in order to turn around. Short, overexposed scene of downtown Saigon
Rochester entered the fringe of a typhoon during transit toward Japan
As Rochester entered the harbor of Yokosuka, a message is received by signal light from a ship near shore. Rochester approaches a pier next to a carrier, shared by another cruiser and is greeted by dancers
Scenes of downtown Yokosuka with cherry blossoms in bloom
Riding a bike during a visit to the Great Buddha of Kamakura
Tokyo and Palace grounds
Operation Flag Hoist, a joint US/British operation, was an amphibious landing on Iwo Jima. The dominant feature ashore is Mount Suribachi.
Ships come alongside, first a destroyer (USS Stormes DD-780) to receive mail, then the oiler to refuel. Rochester's helicopter approached to land on deck during the second operation
The harbor at Sasebo, Japan
From Sasebo, some of the crew traveled by train to the ancient city of Kyoto, where they visited old temples and shrines. Two were challenged to strike a sacred gong in a locked tower, which they did after scaling the wall. The Japanese were remarkably tolerant of such obnoxious behavior
Hong Kong harbor. View of the city and surroundings from Victoria Peak
An afternoon at Hong Kong's Tiger Balm Gardens
Homeward bound in company with the USS Los Angeles, which comes alongside off Oahu. The two vessels continue into Pearl Harbor
Hula dancers perform for the crews of the two cruisers, with the Los Angeles moored outboard of the Rochester
Brief shot of a blow hole on Oahu
Continuing homeward, Rochester enters Long Beach harbor and approaches a dock where friends and families wait to welcome the crew home
Closing title
Japanese reaction to unannounced arrival of US submarine into Japanese port
APTN: Yokosuka, Japan, File
1. Wide shot of USS Chicago submarine docked at US Navy Fleet Activities at Yokosuka, Japan
2. USS Chicago submarine
3. Banner: USS Chicago
4.U-S flag
APTN: Tokyo, Japan, 3 April, 2001
5. Press briefing by Norio Hattori, Press Secretary for Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs
6. Cutaway of press
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Norio Hattori, Press Secretary for Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, According to the US explanation, it is due to the miscommunication in the US Navy's.
APTN: Yokosuka, Japan, File
8. USS Chicago submarine
9. Crew of USS Chicago inside sub
10. Sign saying USS Chicago/Nuclear Powered Attack Submarine
APTN: Tokyo, Japan, 3 April, 2001
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Norio Hattori, Press Secretary for Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, There is an established practice. When it comes to the entry of the US submarine into the Japanese port to notify 24 hours prior to the entry of the ship into the Japanese port. This case is against established practice between the United States and Japan. So, yesterday, the director General of North American Affairs Division Department Me Fujisaki had convey our regrets and also requested the measures to prevent from the same thing happening.
APTN: Yokosuka, Japan, File
12. USS Chicago submarine
13. Mid shot of USS Chicago submarine
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Japanese officials officially expressed their displeasure on Tuesday after a U.S. submarine entered into a southwestern Japanese port without giving advance notice.
U.S. military officials had informed the Sasebo City government that the nuclear submarine Chicago would anchor outside the port on Monday for a routine port call.
But the 6,080-ton sub unexpectedly entered the port for about 20 minutes before leaving, he said Tuesday.
The brief stop violated a 1964 bilateral accord requiring the United States to notify Japan 24 hours in advance of port calls for U.S. nuclear-powered submarines.
The notice gives time for local authorities to check radioactivity levels in ports before and after U.S. submarine visits.
Relations between the United States and Japan have been strained in recent months.
A string of crimes by U.S. military personnel and the sinking of a Japanese fishing boat by a U.S. Navy submarine in February have been a source of friction between the two countries.
There are nearly 50,000 U.S. troops are stationed in Japan.
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USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
The supercarrier USS Kitty Hawk, formerly CVA-63, is the second naval ship named after Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the site of the Wright brothers' first powered airplane flight. Kitty Hawk was both the first and last active ship of her class, and the last oil fired aircraft carrier in service with the United States Navy.
Kitty Hawk was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, 27 December 1956; and launched 21 May 1960, sponsored by Mrs. Camilla F. McElroy, wife of Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy; and commissioned 21 April 1961 at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Captain William F. Bringle in command.
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The H.T.M.S. Mae Klong Museum
One of the most auspicious days in the history of the Royal Thai Navy, Jun 24, 1997 records the first day of introduction of a royal ship museum in Thailand. Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Thai Navy, Admiral Wichit Chamnankarn, at the Chullachomklao Fortress, Phra Samut Chedi Sub-district of Samut Prakan Province, officially opened the museum.
The Royal Thai Navy initially planned to display sections of Thai warships, but the new museum, named H.T.M.S Mae Klong Museum, is the first in Thailand to place on display a complete warship. Also featured is an exhibition of the history of the “Mae Klong” warship and activities carried out by the Navy on different occasions.
The museum was one of the projects conducted by the Royal Thai Navy to commemorate the 50th anniversary of His Majesty the King's Accession to the Throne, celebrated on June 9, 1996. Declared by the Ministry of Defense to be in a state of disrepair, H.T.M.S Mae Klong decommissioned on July 25, 1996 and went on display to the public at the new museum.
Both H.T.M.S. Mae Klong and H.T.M.S. Tha Chin, regarded by naval officers as sisters ships, were constructed in Japan for the Royal Thai Navy to be used as training vessels, or sloops, along with three small torpedo boats. In times of war, the vessels played a role in marine national defense and as training ships during peacetime for both naval offices and cadets for marine navigation training in foreign ports.
Construction of H.T.M.S. Mae Klong began on July 24, 1936 at a ceremony in Yokosuka City, Japan, presided over by Phra Mitrakamraksa, Thailand's Ambassador to Japan. Eight months later, the outer section of the ship was completed and the vessel was launched at a ceremony on November 2, 1936. Initially the ship was armed with cannons, submachine guns, torpedoes and offshore aircraft.
Following construction, successful offshore technical trials took place on April 20, 1937, at which time the Ministry of Defense dispatched ships' crews to bring back H.T.M.S. Mae Klong, H.T.M.S. Tha Chin and the three torpedo boats to Thailand. Commander Luang Yutthakitphilat (Mee Patthamananwin) commanded H.T,M.S. Mae Klong and H.T.M.S. Tha Chin was under the command of Commander Luang Naopholrak (Chun Suwankhadi).
The flotilla, which left Kobe, Japan on July 16, 1937 for Thailand, encountered a series of severe storms during the two-month voyage, but arrived safely on Thai shores thanks to the crews' abilities to keep all vessels afloat. The ships docked on September 24, 1937 at the Royal Thai Navy base at Satthahip in Chonburi Province. This was the first voyage of H.T.M.S Mae Kong which two days later berthed at Bangkok's Ratchaworadit Pier after steaming up the Chao Phraya River.
Captain Prince Arthithaya Thipabha, Regent of King Ananda Mahidol, presided over a grand welcoming ceremony for the ship and its crew.
Since H.T.M.S. Mae Klong was named after the Mae Klong River, the main waterway for Samut Songkhram Province, the Navy dispatched the royal ship to the province to allow residents to enjoy their own proud moments with the vessel over three days from February 3 to 6, 1938. Here, the Mae Klong residents presented a Buddha image and plaque as a magic charm to protect serving officers and crew from all worldly dangers.
H.T.M.S. Mae Klng entered active service for the first on May 15, 1938, training navy cadets on a voyage that called at Saigon, Manila and Kuching. The ship later headed for southern Thailand ports of Tak Bai, Pattani, Songkhla, Nakhon Si Thammarat and Prachuab Khiri Khan, eventually arriving in Bangkok on July 4, 1938.
During it's entire period of active service, H.T.M.S. Mae Klong performed admirably both in times of war and peace. The warship saw active service patrolling territorial waters in the Gulf of Thailand during conflict with France at the time of World War II warfare in Indochina.
Also used as a royal barge for Their Majesties the King and Queen and members of the Royal Family, the ship served to transport King Ananda Mahidol, and the present Monarch from Ratchaworadit Pier to the vessel Sealandia achored of Si Chang island Chon Buri Province. Their Majesties were returning to Lausanne, Switzerland, to continue their studies. The warship was also used to transport the royal relics of King Prajadhipok (Rama VII) from the mouth of the Chao Phraya River to Ratchaworadit Pier.
H.T.M.S. Mae Klong journeyed further than any of the ships in service with the Royal Thai Navy, serving Thailand for sixty years before being honored as “teaching ship.” The H.T.M.S. Mae Klong Museum serves as a link between the past and the present time enabling future generations to study the ship and the activities of the Royal Thai Navy. The museum is open every weekday between 8:30 and 16:30 and admission is free.
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USS Forrestal (CV-59) leaves the shipyard after christening - 12 December 1954
USS Forrestal, lead ship of a class of 56,000 ton aircraft carriers, was built at Newport News, Virginia. Commissioned in October 1955 as the U.S. Navy's first carrier of entirely post-World War II design, she was conceived as an operational platform for large, high-performance aircraft. After shakedown in early 1956 and a trip to the eastern Atlantic during the Suez crisis later in the year, Forrestal began the first of her many Mediterranean cruises in January 1957. She operated in the North Atlantic in September and October of that year and again cruised to the eastern Atlantic during the 1958 Lebanon crisis.
From 1958 to 1966, Forrestal deployed to the Mediterranean six more times. Closer to home, she also conducted aircraft trials, operated in the Atlantic and Caribbean, and was refitted with new aviation and command and control systems. In June 1967, the big carrier began her only Pacific Ocean cruise, to provide additional airpower to the Vietnam war effort. This was cut short when, on 29 July she suffered a huge fire that began among aircraft on her flight deck and spread into her hangar. After her crew, showing (in the words of her embarked flag officer) far more acts of sheer heroism than I could count had extinguished the blaze, the ship was left badly damaged. More than 130 of Forrestal's men lost their lives, 26 aircraft were destroyed and over thirty damaged. From this tragic incident, the Navy learned firefighting lessons that are still fresh more than three decades later.
Forrestal was repaired in time to begin her eighth Mediterranean tour in mid-1968. She returned regularly over the next twenty-three years, operating with that sea's Sixth Fleet for a career total of twenty separate deployments. During that period, Forrestal also was reclassified as CV-59 (in 1975), served as host ship for United States Bicentennial celebrations at New York City in July 1976, and underwent a massive Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) overhaul in 1983-85. Her Mediterranean visits included participation in Tunisian flood relief efforts in 1973, in the confrontation with Libya in 1981 and in protecting Iraq's Kurdish population in 1991. In 1982 and again in 1988, the carrier operated in the Indian Ocean. She was on standby duty in the Atlantic during the 1990-1991 Kuwait war.
Following her 1991 deployment, Forrestal received a new mission, to serve as the Navy's training carrier. She was redesignated AVT-59 in February 1992 and spent much of that year on training service out of Pensacola, Florida. In September, she entered the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard to begin a major overhaul. However, her long service was cut short by the post-Cold War contraction of the Nation's military power. USS Forrestal was decommissioned in September 1993 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register. However, she remains in Navy custody and is presently in storage at Newport, Rhode Island, awaiting a possible new role as a museum ship.
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USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is a Banner-class environmental research ship, attached to Navy intelligence as a spy ship, which was attacked and captured by North Korean forces on 23 January 1968, in what is known today as the Pueblo incident or alternatively, as the Pueblo crisis.
The seizure of the U.S. Navy ship and her 83 crew members, one of whom was killed in the attack, came less than a week after President Lyndon B. Johnson's State of the Union address to the United States Congress, a week before the start of the Tet Offensive in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and three days after 31 men of North Korea's KPA Unit 124 had crossed the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and killed 26 South Koreans in an attempt to attack the South Korean Blue House (executive mansion) in the capital Seoul. The taking of Pueblo and the abuse and torture of her crew during the subsequent 11-month prisoner drama became a major Cold War incident, raising tensions between the western powers, and the Soviet Union and China.
North Korea stated that Pueblo deliberately entered their territorial waters 7.6 nautical miles (14 km) away from Ryo Island, and that the logbook shows that they intruded several times. However, the United States maintains that the vessel was in international waters at the time of the incident and that any purported evidence supplied by North Korea to support its statements was fabricated.Pueblo, still held by North Korea today, officially remains a commissioned vessel of the United States Navy. Since early 2013, the ship has been moored along the Potong River in Pyongyang, and used there as a museum ship at the Pyongyang Victorious War Museum. Pueblo is the only ship of the U.S. Navy still on the commissioned roster currently being held captive.