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US Navy Cruise Books
- The largest collection of online accessible US Navy Cruise Books -
US Navy Cruise Books are unofficial publications published by a ship's crew to document a cruise or deployment. The number of copies of a cruise book is very limited. Several commands only order copies for about 2/3 of the crew as a rule of thumb. Creating those books is an old tradition in the US Navy. This tradition dates back to the late 1800s, when the crews began documenting events of their cruises. A major difference compared to today's cruise books is that the early log books, as they were called, covered a period of up to two years which was the common period for a standard deployment at that time. It is estimated that by now, more than 10,000 different US Navy cruise books have been published and the number of collectors is constantly increasing
The Cruise Books published here are part of my own collection (except for the USS SITKOH BAY Cruise Book and the USS FLETCHER (DD 992) WestPac 1992 Cruise Book). They are not for sale and I'm not able to help you locating old Cruise Books but you can check the Ship's Store to see if one of your ship's cruise books is currently listed on ebay.
Aircraft Carriers
- USS Sitkoh Bay (CVE 86)
- USS Essex (CV 9)
- USS Intrepid (CV 11)
- USS Randolph (CV 15)
- USS Wasp (CV 18)
- USS Shangri-La (CV 38)
- USS Midway (CV 41)
- USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV 42)
- USS Forrestal (CV 59)
- USS Ranger (CV 61)
- USS Independence (CV 62)
- USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63)
- USS Constellation (CV 64)
- USS Enterprise (CVN 65)
- USS America (CV 66)
- USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67)
- USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)
- USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71)
- USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)
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Battleships
- USS New Jersey (BB 62)
- USS Missouri (BB 63)
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Cruisers
- USS Fargo (CL 106)
- USS Gridley (CG 21)
- USS Sterett (CG 31)
- USS Truxtun (CGN 35)
- USS Ticonderoga (CG 47)
- USS Thomas S. Gates (CG 51)
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Destroyers
- USS Turner Joy (DD 951)
- USS Paul F. Foster (DD 964)
- USS Elliot (DD 967)
- USS Arthur W. Radford (DD 968)
- USS Peterson (DD 969)
- USS John Young (DD 973)
- USS Merrill (DD 976)
- USS Briscoe (DD 977)
- USS Stump (DD 978)
- USS Thorn (DD 988)
- USS Fife (DD 991)
- USS Fletcher (DD 992)
- USS Hayler (DD 997)
- USS Charles F. Adams (DDG 2)
- USS Benjamin Stoddert (DDG 22)
- USS John Paul Jones (DDG 32)
- USS Farragut (DDG 37)
- USS Preble (DDG 46)
- USS Barry (DDG 52)
- USS McFaul (DDG 74)
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Frigates
- USS Gray (FF 1054)
- USS Connole (FF 1056)
- USS Marvin Shields (FF 1066)
- USS Trippe (FF 1075)
- USS Barbey (FF 1088)
- USS McInerney (FFG 8)
- USS George Philip (FFG 12)
- USS Curts (FFG 38)
- USS McClusky (FFG 41)
- USS Robert G. Bradley (FFG 49)
- USS Taylor (FFG 50)
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Amphibious Forces
- USS Iwo Jima (LPH 2)
- USS Guam (LPH 9)
- USS Nashville (LPD 13)
- USS Spiegel Grove (LSD 32)
- USS Alamo (LSD 33)
- USS Hermitage (LSD 34)
- USS Fort Fisher (LSD 40)
- USS Germantown (LSD 42)
- USS Comstock (LSD 45)
- USS Fresno (LST 1182)
- USS Saginaw (LST 1188)
- USS Bristol County (LST 1198)
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Auxiliary Vessels
- USS Samuel Gompers (AD 37)
- USS Puget Sound (AD 38)
- USS Yellowstone (AD 41)
- USS Mauna Kea (AE 22)
- USS Nitro (AE 23)
- USS Pyro (AE 24)
- USS Haleakala (AE 25)
- USS San Jose (AFS 7)
- USS Neosho (AO 143)
- USS Camden (AOE 2)
- USS Kansas City (AOR 3)
- USS Wabash (AOR 5)
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