DE-1006 - Tin Can Sailors

Hull Number: DE-1006

Launch Date: 11/08/1953

Commissioned Date: 06/03/1954

Call Sign: NHWO

Voice Call Sign: FALL RIVER (70-72)

Class: DEALEY

DEALEY Class

Namesake: SAMUEL DAVID DEALEY

SAMUEL DAVID DEALEY

Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships

Samuel David Dealey, born 13 September 1906 in Dallas, Tex., graduated from the Naval Academy in June 1930 and had duty in Nevada (BB-36) before training as a submariner. In command of S-20 at the outbreak of World War II, he assumed command of Harder (SS-257) upon her commissioning 2 December 1942. Commander Dealey guided his submarine deep into enemy waters, wreaking destruction on Japanese shipping. He won the Navy Cross four times and the Silver Star once, and shared in the Presidential Unit Citation awarded his command, for heroism in combat. On his fifth war patrol, Commander Dealey pressed home a series of bold and daring attacks, both surfaced and submerged, which sank three destroyers and damaged two others. For his exceptional gallantry in these actions, Commander Dealey was awarded the Medal of Honor. He was lost with his submarine during the sixth patrol, when Harder was sunk 24 August 1944 by a depth charge attack off Luzon.

TCS Ship History

A Tin Can Sailors Destroyer History

USS DEALEY DE-1006

The Tin Can Sailor, January 2013

The USS DEALEY (DE-1006) was launched by the Bath Iron Works of Bath, Maine, on 8 November 1953 and commissioned on 3 June 1954. Her crew numbered one-hundred-seventy officers and men. She was home-ported at Newport, Rhode Island, but also operated out of Key West, Florida, where she participated in Fleet Sonar School and engaged in convoy exercises in the Caribbean. In January 1957, she went on a three-month cruise to South America, then returned to Newport. The DEALEY crossed the Atlantic in September to take part in NATO exercises in the Irish Sea through October. Her cruise took her to ports in England and France.

Her cruise in May 1958 was to the Mediterranean where she served as the flagship for Escort Squadron 10 with the U.S. Sixth Fleet. Her duties included patrols in the eastern Mediterranean during the Lebanon crisis and plane guard duty with the aircraft carrier WASP. She returned to Newport in October. By February 1959, the DEALEY was operating in the waters around Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before transiting the Panama Canal to sail along the west coast of South America. She visited ports in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Chile, while taking part in exercises with navies of those nations. Her trip back to the North Atlantic took her the long way around the horn. Soon after her return to Newport that April, she was underway again. That time for six months of NATO exercises. Back home in October, she spent the rest of the year in the Narragansett Bay area.

The first half of 1960 was spent in local operations, a cruise to the Caribbean, and an amphibious exercise off the Virginia and North Carolina coasts. In June, she went into the New York Naval Shipyard for a month’s overhaul, then cruised in Caribbean and South American waters. She was back home in Newport in December. In October 1962, the DEALEY was part of the fleet operations during the tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis. While enforcing the blockade, she stopped and escorted Soviet freighters out of Cuban waters. In May 1965, she was the only ship of her class to take part in fleet operations during the Dominican crisis. The following month, she was out of service when her officers and crew were temporarily reassigned to meet the personnel needs of other ships in the fleet. By June 1966, however, she was restaffed and back in service.

Routine operations took her into 1972, when on 28 July she was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register and transferred to Uruguay. There, she was renamed the ROU 18 De Julio. The ex-DEALEY was broken up and scrapped in 1991.

Ship History

USS DEALEY DE-1006 Ship History

Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships

Dealey (DE-1006) was launched 8 November 1953 by Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine; sponsored by Mrs. Samuel D. Dealey, widow of Commander Dealey; and commissioned 3 June 1954, Lieutenant Commander R. H. Rossell in command.

Homeported at Newport, Dealey sailed on local exercises, cruised to Key West, Fla., to serve with the Fleet Sonar School, and joined in convoy exercises in the Caribbean during her first 2% years of service.

On 4 January 1957 she sailed from Newport for a South American cruise, returning 21 March for exercises off the Atlantic coast. NATO exercises in the Irish Sea in September and October took her to Plymouth, England, and Brest and Cherbourg, France.

On 12 May 1958 Dealey sailed for the Mediterranean as flagship of Commander, Escort Squadron 10, screening Wasp (CV-18) to her duty with the 6th Fleet. She patrolled the eastern Mediterranean during the Lebanon crisis and returned to Newport 7 October.

On 3 February 1959 she put to sea for Guantanamo Bay, and after exercises there sailed through the Panama Canal for calls at Buenaventura, Colombia; Salinas, Ecuador; Talara and Callao, Peru; and Valparaiso and Antofagasta, Chile. During this cruise she exercised with the navies of all four countries. She returned to Newport 20 April, and sailed on NATO exercises, calling at Londonderry, Northern Ireland; Greenwich, England; and Lisbon, Portugal, before returning to Newport 11 October. She operated in the Narragansett Bay area for the remainder of 1959.

Dealey continued these operations, plus a cruise to the Caribbean and an amphibious exercise off the Virginia and North Carolina coasts, until 20 June 1960 when she began a short overhaul at the New York Naval Shipyard. Returning to Newport on 22 July, the escort prepared for distant duty. On 22 August, she sailed for exercises in the Caribbean, and continued on a voyage around South America. After visits to Trinidad, Venezuela, and Colombia, Dealey sailed through the Panama Canal, down the coast of South America, calling in Ecuador, Peru, and Chile, transited the Straits of Magellan, and turned northward, visiting Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and Trinidad. On 13 December, Dealey arrived home in Newport, where she passed the remainder of the year.