After traveling thirtytwo days from subic bay, philippine island uss forrestal arrived at naval station mayport, florida to off load three of her florida based squadrons va46, va106, and rvah11. Fiftytwo years ago today september 12, 1967 uss forrestal cva59. During that period, forrestal also was reclassified as cv59. An extremely mint and rare zippo lighter from the uss forrestal westpac cruise of 1967, the tragic year of her fire. The number of copies of a cruise book is very limited.
Us navy cruise books are unofficial publications published by a ships crew to document a cruise or deployment. Several commands only order copies for about 23 of the crew as a rule of thumb. Here you can download the uss forrestal cva 59 mediterranean cruise book 196970 as a high resolution. Us navy cruise books the largest online collection of. You will be able to zoom in to better read names etc. Uss forrestal cva 59 vietnam cruise book 1967 in memoriam. Printing is also easily possible because of the high resolution 300dpi and the missing watermarks.
Uss forrestal cv59 1988 med io norlant cruise book. Creating those books is an old tradition in the us navy. Forrestal was repaired in time to begin her eighth mediterranean tour in mid1968. After her initial shakedown, she was took her first of many voyages to the mediterranean in january of 1957. Uss forrestal cva 59 mediterranean cruise book 196970. Here you can download the uss forrestal cva 59 vietnam cruise book 1967 as a high resolution. Uss forrestal, named for secretary of the navy james forrestal, was the first ship of the new 56,000ton aircraft carriers built during the 1950s.
Forrestal cva 59 naval cruise book, class of 1967, page 156 of 368 has the largest online yearbook collection of college, university, high school, middle school, junior high school, military, naval cruise books and yearbooks. Commissioned as attack aircraft carrier cva 59, the forrestal was redesignated as multipurpose aircraft carrier cv 59 on june 30, 1975. Modeling details were obtained from 3 forrestal cruise books, photos from the. She returned regularly over the next twentythree years, operating with that seas sixth fleet for a career total of twenty separate deployments. After being built in newport news, virginia, the new ship was formally commissioned in october 1955.
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