New Year’s Eve 1962 Ship’s Log Entry By Stan Hafenfeld QM3 1962-64 Stan Hafenfeld had the bridge mid-watch on 31 Dec. 1962. Having relieved the watch the requisite 15 minutes early, he was informed it was the Quartermaster of the watch’s responsibility to sum up the year in verse and enter it in the ship’s […]
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Notes from 1962-1963 Cruise Book
“It has been a long hard cruise, even for a destroyerman, but nevertheless we have had our humorous moments. “The theft of the ship’s wheel in Pearl Harbor didn’t seem too funny to some, but most of the crew thought it a great joke. And seeing the assorted bandages, black eyes and bruises – souvenier […]
Tonkin Gulf Incident 1962-1964
Agerholm Roll in Tonkin Gulf Incident from US Navy Archives
AGGIE Shaft Song 1953
(To the tune of “Bless Them All”) Paul Benson remembers: The song originated on the 1953-54 WestPac cruise. It was instigated by several sailings in which the Aggie was “shafted” because it was the junior, and sometimes only, “small boy” in DesRon 1 that was available for a sailing. Several officers including Paul Johansen (Navigation […]
Korean War Action 1951-52
29-30 April 1951 Targets in Kojo-Tongchon area, Korea East Coast bombarded by USS Helena (CA 75), USS Manchester (CL 83), USS Bausell (DD 845), USS Rogers (DDR 876), USS Agerholm (DD 826) and USS Anderson (DD 786), as part of an amphibious demonstration by USS Okonogan (APA 22), USS Telfair (APA 210), and USS Winston […]
Rocket Launch 1949
Rocket Launch in 1949 – Submitted by Bob Drummond RM3 I finished Radioman school at Norfolk in January 1949 and along with five cars on a train headed for the West Coast, spent five days in coach cars arriving at the train station in Pasadena in February. I was bused to Long Beach where I […]
Plan of the Day – 16 September, 1947
PLAN OF THE DAY Tuesday 16 Sept., 1947 0100 Liberty expires for CPO’s. 0430 Call duty cook. 0500 Fantail watch sweep down all heads and washrooms. 0515 Call duty MAA and reveille PO’s. 0530 Reveille. 0545 Clamp down weather decks; muster PAL’s and restricted men; muster fire party. 0600 Breakfast. 0619 Sunrise, turn out anchor […]
Letters Home 1946
Letters Home – Tom Sterner’s experience 1946 Excerpts from letters written by plank owner Tom Sterner during the first four months of his assignment aboard the AGERHOLM. May 22, 1946 Naval Barracks, Bath ME I’ve seen my ship; they are still working on it. I think it is to leave here June 23. It is […]