Excerpt from "The Last Gun Ship - History of USS Mullinnix DD-944"
A Historical Novel By Frank A. Wood
She steamed out of Norfolk on 14 August. She anchored in dense fog at Brenton Reef Light at Brenton Point on 17 August. The ship's normal work was made even worse by the rolling heavy yellow fog, great trails and wisps of it caught against the damp bulkheads and decks like the remnants of a rotten shroud. A distant foghorn sounded a single, doom-filled note.
Once the sun burned away most of the fog, Mullinnix tied up to Pier 1 in Newport, Rhode Island. While in Newport, she was host ship to 150 high school science students from all over the United States. She didn't stay long. Later that afternoon she steamed away from Newport, returning to Norfolk on 18 August.
From 11 September to 21 September 1967, Mullinnix again returned to Newport, this time as host ship for the "Americas Cup" Races.
