Dusk in the Atlantic

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

arly evenings are 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 one year out of Portsmouth Shipyard refurbishing, having acquired her new Distant Airborne Sonar Helicopter (DASH) hanger on the Fantail. This view is from the bow of the Tidewater looking west.