USS MULLINNIX DD-944

              1964 Montreal, Canada
(16 June - 6 July)              

* 16 June 1964: Left D&S Piers for Fleet Operations Area
* 28 June 1964: Achored @ Troro Rivieres, Canada
* 29 June 1964: Pulled up anchor, steam towards Montreal, Canada
* 29 June 1964: Moored starboard side to Pier 36 @ 1258, Montreal, Canada

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1964 Mullinnix Deck Logs

January 1964 (PDF)
February 1964 (PDF)
March 1964 (PDF)
April 1964 (PDF)
May 1964 (PDF)
June 1964 (PDF)
July 1964 (PDF)
August 1964 (PDF)
September 1964 (PDF)
October 1964 (PDF)
November 1964 (PDF)
December 1964 (PDF)



9 Feb, 1964 - Beatles on Ed Sullivan's Sunday night TV variety show. They had first set foot in the U.S. only two days before. But their records and publicity had preceded them. Their single I Want to Hold Your Hand and just hit #1. The life crowd squirmed, thrashed, leaped up and down, screamed, squealed, shrieked, and wept. They performed five songs in two sets. You could hardly hear the music but that didn't matter. An estimated 73 million viewers tuned in to watch Britain's Fab Four.

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In May 1964, a helicopter plunged into the sea 1,500 yards from the MULLINNIX. She sped to the scene, where her motor whaleboat picked up three crewmembers from the downed craft.

The rest of the story: Every Mullinnix reunion has its own emotional moment and this year it happened Friday evening. As we reported in the recent edition of Mullinnix News, back on the night of 7 May 1964 helicopter #54 from the USS Randolph CVS-15 went down off the coast of New Jersey in 44-degree water and our motor whale boat crew rescued the 4 survivors. The 4th man they pulled out of the water that night was an Airman by the name of Bud Neubauer. He was unconscious and hypothermic. ATC Bud Neubauer, USN (ret) survived, stayed in the Navy and crashed "a couple more times", and he and his lovely wife Paula were our guests for the Friday night Pizza Party and Annual Auction at the Mullinnix reunion. Before the auction got started, we gave Bud the microphone and despite his claim not to be a good public speaker, he entertained us with his tale of that fateful night and thanked those responsible for "giving me the chance to have a pretty good life". The "emotional moment" only got better when we all learned that one of us in the crowd, Gayle Lunning (RD3, '62-'65) was the guy manning the surface search radar that guided the ship to the downed aircraft until the "blip" disappeared off his radar scope as the helo sank! WOW!
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14 July, 1964 - Mullinnix Newspaper Article


NOB Norfolk (Note Forward 3")


1 Sept, 1964 (Note Forward 3")

The next 2 years she operated in the Caribbean and Atlantic, taking part in "Steel Pike I," the largest amphibious training operation since World War II. This was a Navy-Marine Corps peacetime exercise in October 1964 until late November, off the coast of Spain. This included a NATO landing exercise on the beaches of southern Spain. Other ships included USS Hermitage LSD-34, USS Spiegel Grove LSD-32, USS Guadalcanal LPH-7, and USS Okinawa LPH-3 (her 1st trip to European waters).


Click on image to read the All Hands Magazine article of
how the Mux saved a Helo Crew from freezing to death (PDF)




Letters to the Editor - All Hands Magazine December 1964





Who can forget Fire Fighting School?

Meanwhile,The Tonkin Gulf Incident (attacks on the USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy) kick starts the Vietnam War...
Watch the videos on how it unfolded!

Tonkin Gulf Incident 1
Tonkin Gulf Incident 2
Tonkin Gulf Incident 3
Tonkin Gulf Incident 4
Tonkin Gulf Incident 5
Tonkin Gulf Incident 6
Tonkin Gulf Incident 7
Tonkin Gulf Incident 8
Tonkin Gulf Incident 9
Tonkin Gulf Incident 10
Tonkin Gulf Incident 11
Tonkin Gulf Incident 12


Desron 32 Change of Command 1964 (PDF)






Hamilton Bermuda, April 1964, Mullinnix' Captain's Gig

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USS Randolph CVS-15 Taken From Mullinnix, 1964

On 1 April 1964, in an unusual accident, the Number Three deck elevator of USS Randolph tore loose from the ship during night operations and fell into the Atlantic off Cape Henry, Virginia, taking with it a Grumman S-2D Tracker, five crewmen, and a tractor. Three crew were rescued by the destroyer Holder, but two were lost at sea.

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