1969 and sailed out of Mayport, Florida on her. This cruise was not what we had bargained for. We had returned from our Vietnam Westpac deployment on
Four days later the ship departed Norfolk in the screen of Ticonderoga (CV-14) bound ultimately for the western Pacific. Steaming via the Panama Canal and San Diego Calif. the destroyer arrived in Pearl Harbor on 25 September. She conducted training exercises there for almost a month before de...
The first ship to move forward with the alteredEssex-class design was USSHancock(CV-14) which was later re-namedTiconderoga. This was followed by additional ships including USSShangri-La(CV-38). Construction commenced January 15, 1943, at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard. A significant departure from...
Ticonderoga (CVA-14). Brief sweeps were made to the Philippines and ports of Japan. She arrived in Yokosuka 15 December 1964 for upkeep, again sailing 21 January 1965 to support U.S. Forces in Vietnam until 1 March. During this period, she operated with Ranger (CVA-61), Hancock (CVA-...
(CVA-66). Upon arrival she assumed duty as screen commander and plane guard destroyer for Ticonderoga (CVA-14) and also joined Enterprise (CVAN-65) for more plane guard duty. After a brief period of leave on 1 July Lind returned to her station in the Gulf of Tonkin and served as ...
Though acting as a part of the screen for the carrier Ticonderoga (CVA-14) she also fired support missions for ground troops ashore. On 12 November Ingraham steamed 10 miles up the Saigon River to bombard an enemy supply base and by the 13th shelled a guerrilla assembly area some 300 ...
Ticonderoga (CVA-14) until sailing for San Diego in March 1967. Following an overhaul at Long Beach Mullany spent the remainder of the year conducting refresher training and local operations off the Coast of California. In February 1968 she once again deployed to the Western Pacific returning ...