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Underway at 1605 for Recife, Brazil,
SA 0847 Moored starboard side to #3 Recife, Brazil Underway 0831 for Bahia, Brazil 0847 Moored portside to #9 Bahia, Brazil Underway 0835 for Rio Anchored 0651 Rio De Janeiro. Honor Guard for G.G. Bee who died in Brazilian Air Force Hospital. Took on supplies. 1754 Underway for Concepcion, Chile. Rounded Cape Horn, Argentina, SA (About) 0957 Anchored Conception, Chile. 8 fathoms, mud bottom. 0903 Underway for Valpariso, Chile 0908 Let go starboard anchor. 23 fathoms. Moored stern to breakwater, Valpariso, Chile 0910 Underway 1437 Moored stern to mooring buoy. Antofagasto, Chile, in 45 fathoms. Underway at 1021 for Iquique, Chile 1030 Moored stern to buoy at Iquique in 9 fathoms. Reception for Chilean civilians, Army, Navy, and Air Force personnel. Underway 0957 for Callao (Lima), Peru 0937 Moored portside to commercial pier 44 South Callao 1001 Underway with U.S. Ambassador on board. 1645 Moored starboard side to Pier #2 Callao, Peru Santa Elena, Ecuador, SA Crossed Equator Heading North (Approx. Date) Colon, Panama, CZ Transited Panama Canal Balboa, Panama, CZ Cartagena, Colombia, SA Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Returned Norfolk, VA Depart Norfolk, VA with 8th Fleet (Adm. Marc A. Mitscher) for exercises in Caribbean. Port au Spain, Trinidad for 4 days of liberty. Anchor Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for 3 days. Part of Eighth Fleet anchored in Guantanamo Bay included Midway, Princeton, FDR, Macon, Dayton, Little Rock, hospital ship Consolation, and numerous auxiliaries. Gunnery exercises at Culebra, PR with US Naval Ships Missouri, Dayton and Macon. At sea. Conduct underway replenishment. Anchor in Hudson River, New York City, NY Departed Philadelphia, PA Plymouth England Scapa Flow, Scotland Inverness, Scotland Goteburg, Sweden Copenhagen, Denmark Captain Henri Smith-Hutton reports aboard CL-92 Stockholm, Sweden Captain Henri Smith-Hutton relieves Captain W.E. Miller as CO CL-92 Transit Kiel Canal Antwerp, Belgium Amsterdam, Netherlands Plymouth, England Lisbon, Portugal Underway ? Naples, Italy Piraeus, Greece (port city of Athens) Captain Henri Smith-Hutton receives Order of the Phoenix from the Greek Minister of Defense Malta Bone, Algeria Returned to Malta to pick up Admiral Mitscher of World War II fame, who had become ill, and transported him back to the USA. Norfolk, Va. Conducted Training Exercises off mouth of Chesapeake Bay. New York, NY Norfolk, VA Departed Chesapeake Bay to began Cold Weather Training in northern waters in the area between Greenland and Canada with USS Missouri and four destroyers. (See additional details of this trip in Captain Smith-Huttons memoirs.) Crossed Arctic Circle Argentia, Newfoundland Little Rock strikes USS Missouri with starshell during gunnery practice. Arrive New York, NY Host Christmas Party for underpriviledged children |
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Date shown for ports generally indicate arrival date. Port stays are typically 3-5 days. In July 1945, Mitscher became Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air. During March-September 1946 he commanded the Eighth Fleet during the Navy's first major post-World War II combat training exercises. Admiral Mitscher was then assigned as Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet. While holding that position, he died of a heart attack on 3 February 1947. Click HERE for photo of Admiral Mitscher, Commander, Eighth Fleet, on the bridge of his flagship, circa 1946. |
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