USS Cochrane Westpac 1974 1975 Navy Cruise Book Photos History Named Copy For Sale

USS Cochrane Westpac 1974 1975 Navy Cruise Book Photos History Named Copy
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USS Cochrane Westpac 1974 1975 Navy Cruise Book Photos History Named Copy:
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USS Cochrane (DDG-21)

1974 – 1975 Westpac

96 page Walsworth illustrated hardcover cruise book

Cochrane carries the most modern weapons afloat fordestroyers of her class, giving her the capability to deal effectively with anythreat on the high seas. Can serve onlylarger than the destroyer we have known in the past, Cochrane is a fast, highlymaneuverable ship. Her automaticcombustion control power plant enables her to carry out with great speed andmobility any task to which she is assigned.Her powerful sonar, ASROC, and torpedo installations he quit her todetect, fight, and kill submarines at extended ranges. With her TATAR guided missiles she is capableof intercepting and destroying enemy aircraft many miles from the ship. She is equipped with the most moderncommunications and electronics installations and not only can she swiftlydetect and track targets that she can rapidly deliver the missile inprojectiles against these targets, be they in the air, on the sea, or under thesea, were on the land. This modernguided missile destroyer is equipped to meet the challenges of today and thefuture.

USS Cochrane joined cruiser-destroyer force, United StatesPacific Fleet in March 1964, and became the flagship of Destroyer Division TwoFifty Two. Presently a member of Destroyers Thirty Three and the Naval Surface Force, Pacific, Cochrane returnedto Pearl Harbor Hawaii on 16 May 1975 after completing her seventh deploymentto the western Pacific.

USS Cochrane (DDG-21), named for Vice Admiral Edward L.Cochrane, USN, was a Charles F. Adams-class guided missile armed destroyer. TheCochrane was laid down by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company atSeattle, Washington on 31 July 1961, launched on 18 July 1962 and commissionedon 21 March 1964.

In April 1975 Cochrane participated in Operation FrequentWind, the evacuation of Saigon, Vietnam.

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