USS Canberra CAG2 World Cruise Ship's Log

USS Canberra CAG 2 1960 Cruise Book [CD-ROM]

USS Canberra CAG 2 1960 Cruise Book
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Fox Division
Mark 56 Gun Fire Control System,
aft port side
Favorite Port: Naples, Italy

USS Canberra CAG2 World Cruise Data

Departing from the normal operating schedule, Canberra CAG2 got underway from Norfolk, Virginia on 3 March 1960 on a good-will cruise around the world. Captain Walter Harlen Baumberger was our Commanding Officer during the 1960 World Cruise.

Canberra CAG2 got underway from Norfolk, Virginia on 3 March 1960 on a good-will cruise around the world. She was flying the flag of Rear Admiral J. McN. Taylor, Commander of the Atlantic Fleet, Cruiser Force and Cruiser Division 6.
On this cruise Canberra CAG2 operated with both the 7th and 6th Fleets as she sailed across the Pacific, through the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Cannel, the Mediterranean Sea, and across the Atlantic Ocean. She returned to port in Norfolk, Virginia on 24 October, 1960. For the remainder of the year she operated off the east coast in the Atlantic Ocean.

U.S.S. Canberra CAG2 1960 World Cruise Ports Of Call.

Date of Visit	Port of Call
March 3	Norfolk
March 6	Quantanamo Bay
March 9	Panama Canal
March 16	San Diego
April 2	Long Beach
April 6	San Diego
April 19	Pearl Harbor
April 25	Crossed Equator
May 2	Sydney, Australia
May 9	Melbourne, Australia
May 24	U.S. Naval Base Guam
May 30	Yokosuka, Japan
June 24	Moji, Japan
July 2	Peppu, Japan
July 13	Hong Kong
July 18	Subic Bay, Philippines
July 22	Singapore
July 27	Cochin, India
August 2	Karachi, Pakistan
August 10	Aden, Aden Protectorate
August 15	Suez Canal
August 19	Golfo di Palmas, Sardinia
August 27	Cannes, France
September 1	Leghorn, Italy
September 7	Fiumicino,Italy (Rome)
September 9	Naples, Italy
September 15	Piraeus, Greece (Athens)
October 3	Istanbul, Turkey
October 9	Piraeus, Greece (Athens)
October 14	Golfo di Palmas, Sardina
October 24	Norfolk, Virginia