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U.S.S. PUGET SOUND
(AD-38)STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE
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USS Puget Sound (AD-38) keel was laid February 15, 1965. She was launched September 16, 1966 and after fitting out was commissioned April 27, 1968, with CAPT. Richard Jacobs in command.
She was named for a sound of the Pacific Ocean reaching into the state of Washington 80 miles. The Bremterton Washington Navy Base is at the southern end of the Puget sound.
AD-38 was the second ship named USS Puget Sound. The first USS Puget Sound was a seaplane tender, AV-13. AV-13 was renamed USS Salisbury Sound in 1944.
After sea trials, USS Puget Sound transited the Panama Canal and then spent her entire srevice career with the Atlantic Fleet. At various times she was homeported in Newport, Rhode Island; Gaeta, Italy; and Norfolk, Virginia. Stateside duty was varied with Med and Caribbean deployments. While in Gaeta, Italy, she was the Flag Ship of Sixth Fleet. In the latter potion of her service career she supported Operation Desert Storm and Operation Desert Shield.
USS Puget Sound (AD-38) was decommisoned on 27 January 1996. Her hulk was sold to ESCO Marine of Brownsville, TX. ESCO completed her scrapping in March of 2009.
The USS Puget Sound (AD-38) operational history and significant events of her service career follow:
AD-38 Deployments - Major Events
Add a AD-38 Shellback Initiation | Add a AD-38 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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FEB | 1965 | - | Keel Date: 15 FEB 1965 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Bremerton WA | ||
SEP | 1966 | - | Launch Date: 16 SEP 1966 | ||
APR | 1968 | - | Commissioned: 27 APR 1968 | ||
JAN | 1970 | - | JUN | 1972 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JAN | 1970 | - | JAN | 1972 | Dry Dock |
MAR | 1971 | - | APR | 1971 | Caribbean |
DEC | 1971 | - | Shellback Initiation - 29 DEC 1971 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
DEC | 1971 | - | Shellback Initiation - 29 DEC 1971 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
JUL | 1972 | - | Shellback Initiation - 20 JUL 1972 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
JUL | 1972 | - | Shellback Initiation - 20 JUL 1972 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
AUG | 1972 | - | OCT | 1972 | Operation Pegasus move dependents of Desron 12 to Naples |
AUG | 1972 | - | OCT | 1972 | Dependents Cruise |
OCT | 1972 | - | Shellback Initiation - 16 OCT 1972 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
DEC | 1972 | - | Shellback Initiation - 29 DEC 1972 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
DEC | 1972 | - | Shellback Initiation - 29 DEC 1972 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
DEC | 1972 | - | Shellback Initiation - 29 DEC 1972 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
JAN | 1973 | - | MAR | 1973 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1973 | - | JAN | 1977 | Mediterranean-Lebanon |
SEP | 1974 | - | JUN | 1978 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
SEP | 1974 | - | JUN | 1978 | vietnam |
SEP | 1975 | - | SEP | 1975 | Guantanamo Bay |
JAN | 1976 | - | DEC | 1976 | Mediterranean |
JUN | 1976 | - | DEC | 1976 | Mediterranean-Lebanon |
JUN | 1976 | - | DEC | 1976 | Mediterranean |
JUN | 1976 | - | DEC | 1976 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1977 | - | JAN | 1980 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
JAN | 1978 | - | JUL | 1978 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1978 | - | JUN | 1978 | Mediterranean |
JUN | 1978 | - | DEC | 1978 | Mediterranean-Lebanon |
JUN | 1978 | - | DEC | 1978 | Mediterranean-Lebanon |
JUN | 1978 | - | DEC | 1978 | Mediterranean |
OCT | 1978 | - | OCT | 1979 | Regular Overhaul |
JUN | 1979 | - | MAR | 1981 | North Atlantic-Med-Indian Ocean |
MAR | 1980 | - | APR | 1982 | Became 6th flag ship Also received sailors (Female). |
MAR | 1980 | - | MAR | 1980 | Guantanamo Bay |
APR | 1980 | - | JAN | 1983 | Mediterranean |
JUN | 1980 | - | OCT | 1985 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1981 | - | OCT | 1984 | Mediterranean |
JUL | 1981 | - | DEC | 1982 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1982 | - | JAN | 1985 | Mediterranean-Lebanon |
JAN | 1983 | - | JAN | 1983 | Beirut Lebanan |
JAN | 1983 | - | JAN | 1983 | beirut lebanon |
JAN | 1983 | - | JAN | 1983 | Mediterranean-Lebanon |
JAN | 1983 | - | DEC | 1983 | Mediterranean-Lebanon |
JAN | 1983 | - | DEC | 1983 | Mediterranean-Lebanon |
MAR | 1983 | - | APR | 1986 | Mediterranean-Lebanon |
SEP | 1983 | - | OCT | 1983 | Mediterranean-Lebanon |
JAN | 1985 | - | JUL | 1986 | Mediterranean |
JUL | 1985 | - | JUL | 1985 | Dependents Cruise |
NOV | 1986 | - | MAY | 1987 | Mediterranean |
OCT | 1988 | - | NOV | 1988 | Blue Nose - Arctic Circle |
FEB | 1989 | - | JUN | 1989 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
FEB | 1989 | - | JUN | 1989 | North Atlantic-Med-Indian Ocean |
MAY | 1989 | - | Shellback Initiation - 15 MAY 1989 - Indian Ocean | ||
MAY | 1989 | - | Shellback Initiation - 4 MAY 1989 - Indian Ocean | ||
JUL | 1989 | - | Shellback Initiation - 7 JUL 1989 - Indian Ocean | ||
JAN | 1990 | - | JAN | 1991 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1991 | - | JUN | 1991 | Mediterranean-Lebanon |
JAN | 1991 | - | JUN | 1991 | Desert Storm |
MAY | 1991 | - | AUG | 1991 | Guantanamo Bay |
JUN | 1991 | - | APR | 1994 | Desert Storm |
OCT | 1992 | - | APR | 1993 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
OCT | 1992 | - | APR | 1993 | Mediterranean |
DEC | 1992 | - | FEB | 1996 | Desert Storm |
JUN | 1994 | - | DEC | 1994 | Mediterranean |
JUL | 1995 | - | FEB | 1996 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1996 | - | Decommissioned: 27 JAN 1996 | ||
JUL | 1997 | - | JUL | 1997 | Dependents Cruise |
AD-38 General Specifications
Class: Samuel Gompers-class destroyer tender
Complement: 106 Officers and 1314 Enlisted
Displacement: 20500 tons
Length: 643 feet 1 inches
Beam: 85 feet
Draft: 35 feet
Final Disposition: Esco Marine Brownsville Texas; Scrapping began April 2008
USS PUGET SOUND (AD-38)
Puget
Sound (AD-38), the second of the AD-37 class destroyer
tenders, was laid down 15 February 1965 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard,
Bremerton, Wash.; launched 16 September 1966; sponsored by Mrs. Gale McGee,
wife of the Senior United States Senator from Wyoming; and commissioned 27
April 1968 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Capt. R. B. Jacobs in command.
After outfitting and builders trials at
Puget Sound, the new tender steamed 17 August on the first leg of her voyage to
join the Atlantic Fleet. She called at San Francisco and Acapulco before
shakedown at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba 6 September through 4 October.
Calls at the Virgin Islands and Mayport,
Fla. 6-13 October were followed by final acceptance trials. Puget Sound arrived Newport, R.I., her
homeport, 16 October. After post-shakedown availability at Boston Naval
Shipyard 15 November-13 December, the tender returned to Newport to commence
her tending duties in earnest and to serve as Flagship for Commander,
Cruiser-Destroyer Force, Atlantic. She serves the Fleet at Newport into 1970.
[Note: The above USS PUGET SOUND (AD-38) history may, or may not, contain text provided by crew members of the USS PUGET SOUND (AD-38), or by other non-crew members, and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]