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US Navy Cruise Books
- The largest online collection of freely 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 Hornet (CV 12)
- USS Randolph (CV 15)
- USS Lexington (CV 16)
- USS Wasp (CV 18)
- USS Kearsarge (CV 33)
- USS Shangri-La (CV 38)
- USS Midway (CV 41)
- USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV 42)
- USS Philippine Sea (CV 47)
- USS Forrestal (CV 59)
- USS Saratoga (CV 60)
- 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 Nimitz (CVN 68)
- USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69)
- USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)
- USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71)
- USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)
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Battleships
- USS Alabama (BB 60)
- USS Iowa (BB 61)
- USS New Jersey (BB 62)
- USS Missouri (BB 63)
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Cruisers
- USS Fargo (CL 106)
- USS Chicago (CG 11)
- USS Gridley (DLG / CG 21)
- USS England (DLG / CG 22)
- USS Halsey (DLG / CG 23)
- USS Josephus Daniels (DLG / CG 27)
- USS Horne (DLG / CG 30)
- USS Sterett (DLG / CG 31)
- USS Fox (DLG / CG 33)
- USS Truxtun (DLGN / CGN 35)
- USS South Carolina (CGN 37)
- USS Mississippi (CGN 40)
- USS Ticonderoga (CG 47)
- USS Thomas S. Gates (CG 51)
- USS San Jacinto (CG 56)
- USS Vella Gulf (CG 72)
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Destroyers
- USS Hamner (DD 718)
- USS Newman K. Perry (DD 883)
- USS Floyd B. Parks (DD 884)
- USS Barry (DD 933)
- USS Manley (DD 940)
- USS Morton (DD 948)
- USS Richard S. Edwards (DD 950)
- 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 O'Brien (DD 975)
- USS Merrill (DD 976)
- USS Briscoe (DD 977)
- USS Stump (DD 978)
- USS Thorn (DD 988)
- USS Ingersoll (DD 990)
- USS Fife (DD 991)
- USS Fletcher (DD 992)
- USS Hayler (DD 997)
- USS Charles F. Adams (DDG 2)
- USS Robison (DDG 12)
- USS Buchanan (DDG 14)
- USS Berkeley (DDG 15)
- USS Joseph Strauss (DDG 16)
- USS Benjamin Stoddert (DDG 22)
- USS Decatur (DDG 31)
- USS John Paul Jones (DDG 32)
- USS Somers (DDG 34)
- USS Farragut (DLG 6 / DDG 37)
- USS Coontz (DLG 9 / DDG 40)
- USS Dahlgren (DLG 12 / DDG 43)
- USS Preble (DLG 15 / DDG 46)
- USS Barry (DDG 52)
- USS McFaul (DDG 74)
- USS Lassen (DDG 82)
- USS Kidd (DDG 993)
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Frigates
- USS Albert David (FF 1050)
- USS Gray (FF 1054)
- USS Connole (FF 1056)
- USS Marvin Shields (FF 1066)
- USS Francis Hammond (DE / FF 1067)
- USS Harold E. Holt (FF 1074)
- USS Trippe (FF 1075)
- USS Barbey (FF 1088)
- USS Julius A. Furer (DEG / FFG 6)
- USS McInerney (FFG 8)
- USS George Philip (FFG 12)
- USS Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG 13)
- 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 Tarawa (LHA 1)
- USS Belleau Wood (LHA 3)
- USS Iwo Jima (LPH 2)
- USS Okinawa (LPH 3)
- USS Guam (LPH 9)
- USS Tripoli (LPH 10)
- USS Raleigh (LPD 1)
- USS Austin (LPD 4)
- USS Cleveland (LPD 7)
- USS Denver (LPD 9)
- USS Nashville (LPD 13)
- USS Ponce (LPD 15)
- USS Spiegel Grove (LSD 32)
- USS Alamo (LSD 33)
- USS Hermitage (LSD 34)
- USS Mount Vernon (LSD 39)
- USS Fort Fisher (LSD 40)
- USS Germantown (LSD 42)
- USS Fort McHenry (LSD 43)
- USS Comstock (LSD 45)
- USS Rushmore (LSD 47)
- USS Ashland (LSD 48)
- USS Newport (LST 1179)
- USS Fresno (LST 1182)
- USS Frederick (LST 1184)
- USS Saginaw (LST 1188)
- USS La Moure County (LST 1194)
- USS Bristol County (LST 1198)
- USS Durham (LKA 114)
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Auxiliary Vessels
- USS Dixie (AD 14)
- USS Prairie (AD 15)
- 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 Mount Hood (AE 29)
- USS Flint (AE 32)
- USS Sylvania (AFS 2)
- USS San Diego (AFS 6)
- USS San Jose (AFS 7)
- USS Coronado (AGF 11)
- USS Neosho (AO 143)
- USS Ponchatoula (AO 148)
- USS Camden (AOE 2)
- USS Detroit (AOE 4)
- USS Wichita (AOR 1)
- USS Kansas City (AOR 3)
- USS Wabash (AOR 5)
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