Word: truxtun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...style by ordering the 85,000-ton nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise to show the flag in the Sea of Japan. En route at the time to Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin after a stop in southern Japan, the carrier headed north instead, accompanied by the nuclear frigate Truxtun and several other escort vessels. Six or seven other warships put out of Yokosuka later in the week, presumably bound for the same area. Shadowing Enterprise, sometimes at the dangerously close range of 800 yards, was the Soviet trawler Gidrolog, a gadget-crammed spy ship of the same genre...
...Center was set up in 1961 by a $5 million grant from the Old Dominion Foundation and a gift of land from Mrs. Truxtun Beale given in memory of her son, Walker Blaine Beale...