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Other features may include candid photographs of crew members at work and recreation, details and history of the ship, and short biographies on captains, commanders, and other prominent officers. Allen Publishing had a great crew of very dedicated young people, most of which were in their late teens or twenties. We were open every day of the week and most of the time had three shifts on duty in order to meet the deadlines and produce quality cruise books. The staff worked diligently to get the books on the dock as the ships arrived in US port. Or shortly thereafter, if the crew wanted arrival activities in the book. One of the officers on a ship told me they would be interested; however, they had a very small crew and could not afford a large publication.
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On large ships, the books are produced on board by the ship's Morale, Welfare and Recreation department and Public Affairs staff, later they are printed ashore by printing companies that specialize in such services. The cruise book of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier typically reaches over 600 pages in length, as it includes portraits of the more than 5,000 sailors and U.S. Shortly after being released from the United States Army, I asked a friend who worked for a large yearbook publishing company about producing books for military organizations fighting the war in Vietnam. He told me that several of the high school yearbook companies were doing it for Navy ships.
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After my father died in 1983, we remembered that he had kept boxes of the cruise book overruns. Linda and I have stored those books and transferred them with us every time we moved through several cities and states. (I don’t even want to think of the storage and moving costs.) A few suffered some from moisture, and after 45 years some of the covers are scuffed or corners dented. There were good times at Allen Publishing – and occasionally there were difficult times.
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One of our readers is looking for a cruise book in decent condition for the 1970 Med tour on the USS Intrepid CVS-11. This cruise book was never distributed, and in good condition, having been stored in a box with other publishers’ books since 1970. There may be slight darkening or smudge marks on the edges of the paper, some tears or scuff marks to the cover.
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Rear Admiral H. H. Anderson served aboard as Commander Cruiser Destroyer Flotilla II, Commander Cruiser Destroyer Group Seventh Fleet, with Captain G. S. Grove as Chief of Staff. They are not official Navy publications, and the Navy does not stock, sell, or republish these books. This can make copies of some books, especially older volumes, extremely rare.
Though it barely covered expenses, we worked as hard to create that small but meaningful book as we did books for the larger ships. In September the ship returned to the Pacific and about a year later began her third Seventh Fleet deployment, which featured more Vietnam war combat service. Returning to the U.S. in January 1969, Galveston again went to the Mediterranean in May of that year for a cruise that lasted until October. Redesignated CLG-93 in February 1956, as work was beginning, she received her definitive hull number, CLG-3, in May 1957. The United States Navy produces Cruise Books that document the daily life of officers and crew members on voyages or deployments.
Thus, living in Orange County, California at the time, I went to the Long Beach Naval Station and got permission to visit a squadron of mine sweepers. My company did not produce any books for the Valley Forge so if you know of any that are available, the reader would appreciate if you could send me a message through the website email, and I will connect you. It is a story that covers many thousands of miles and many foreign lands. But lo the plague of the liberty-loving sailor was upon them, and it was called Underway Training, and they labored hard that they might win over the plague.
I went on to produce documentary books for industry, such as the building of the Trans Alaska Pipeline and another documentary for NASA titled “Man’s Greatest Adventure”. That was followed by a book on water foul for Sea World, a book on coal for McGraw Hill, a wine book titled “The Winemakers of the Pacific Northwest”. Several released Navy officers and enlisted men came to work for us after their active duty as an interim until they finished college or fulfilled their employment career goals.
As before, the cruiser spent most of her time on PIRAZ station, guiding the many planes which operated over North Vietnam. This tour of duty in WestPac ended with her arrival again at Long Beach on 16 November, where she remained into 1969 when she undertook the cruise represented in this book, departing August 1969. The summer of 1966 was spent in training and orienting midshipment in the tactics and operations involved in the modern nuclear Navy.
The Navy also increased the maximum enlistment age from 39 to 41 in November 2022, and raised the maximum enlistment bonus to $50,000 in February 2022. Additionally, those entering the nuclear field could receive a $75,000 maximum enlistment as of last summer. The Navy last permitted such applicants to enlist more than 20 years ago, and is the only service to permit those without a high school diploma to enlist. The service projects the change could bring in 2,000 more sailors annually. To counter recruiting challenges, the Navy has ushered in a series of reforms in recent years.
One of our readers is seeking cruise books for the “Happy Valley” covering the years of 1966 through 1969. The simple illustration on the dust jacket belies an unusually high number of color photographs enhance this quality cruise book. The portraits of the crew are exceptional for photography taken under these challenging conditions.
Six years later, the first batch of drones is in production at the company’s new factory in Missouri. The Navy expects the $180-million drones to deploy for the first time in 2026. Chef and sommelier Troy Knapp makes Michelin-level menus on his luxury sailboat Cru Classé. Back at the Wharf for its third year, the detail-oriented captain brings fine-dining to the dock with artfully plated courses, decadent floral arrangements, seafaring table settings, and French wines he pours himself.
The service announced in October it recruited 30,236 new active duty sailors in fiscal year 2023, short of its 37,700 target for the year. The service also recruited 1,948 Reserve enlisted personnel, missing its 3,000 goal. To bolster its recruiting numbers, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti told the Senate Armed Services Committee in September that the Navy must hold a “conversation with America” about what the sea service can offer. The Defense Department reported that the Navy recruited a total of 9,883 new sailors in the first half of fiscal 2024, roughly 66.5 percent of the service’s recruitment target for that time period. After the Peace Accord in Paris on January 24, 1973, it was time for all of us at Allen Publishing to pursue different avenues in our lives.
Long Beach returned to Norfolk from this triumph 3 October to join in exercises off the east coast and in the Caribbean. On 4 June she sailed for the Global Strategy Conference at the Naval War College, Newport, where Vice Adm. Kleber S. Masterson, Commander 2d Fleet broke his flag in the ship. Back in Norfolk 23 June, Long Beach resumed training and upkeep prior to her transfer to the Pacific Fleet. She sailed 28 February 1966 for her new home port and namesake, Long Beach, Calif., and arrived 15 March.
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