USS Haynsworth

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The web site at http://www.usshaynsworth.org is dedicated to the several thousand sailors and officers from nearly every state in the union that served proudly aboard the USS Haynsworth DD700, during 26 years of volatile times. (as of 2022-11-14)

More information about the USS Haynsworth is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Haynsworth (as of 2022-11-14)

A member (for many years) of the St. Paul's Sunday School served on the USS Haynsworth (destroyer) in the 1962-1963 time frame.

More: Photos for 2024-03-31

1961: Emergency food ration ship to flood-ravaged Africa
1962: Cape Canaveral rescue ship
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis

Late in 1961, while in the Mediterranean, Haynsworth delivered emergency food rations to flood-ravaged Africa, and on 3 October 1962, she stood by off Cape Canaveral as a rescue ship and witnessed the take off of astronaut Comdr. Walter Schirra in Mercury-Atlas 8. Later that month, under much more serious circumstances, she hastened to the Caribbean and participated in the naval quarantine of Cuba, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Wikipedia (as of 2022-11-14)

From http://www.usshaynsworth.org/crew-photos/index-crew-photos.html (as of 2022-11-14)

1963: Mediterranean
1963: Red Sea
1963: Gulf of Aden
1963: Midshipman Atlantic cruise
1964: Naval Reserve training ship

In February 1963, Haynsworth deployed to the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Gulf of Aden for operations with the 6th Fleet. After returning to Norfolk, she embarked midshipmen for an Atlantic cruise from 1 August to 10 September; then underwent overhaul at New Orleans, and Orange, Texas, before arriving Galveston, Texas on 28 February 1964 to begin duty as a Naval Reserve training ship. Wikipedia (as of 2022-11-14)