Dusk in the Atlantic

photo courtesy Bill Cook, ET2 USS Tidewater 1962-1965
View from USS Tidewater Starboard Weatherdeck

Early evenings were always spectacular on the Atlantic. Here we see a destroyer in the distance, accompanying us as part of a 12-ship flotilla back to the US from the 1962/63 Med Cruise. The Tidewater was just 1 year out of Portsmouth Shipyard refurbishing, having just acquired her new Distant Airborne Sonar Helicopter (DASH) hanger on the Fantail. This view is from the bow of the Tidewater looking west.