Naval Shiphandling
Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 1963. Second Edition [stated]. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 7.25 inches by 10.5 inches. xxvi, 529, [1] pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Appendix I Propeller Side Forces; Appendix II Resistance and Power. Appendix III Rules of the Road. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears, and chips. Captain Crenshaw was in the Naval Academy class of 1941, serving in Pacific fleet destroyers from Pearl Harbor, thru Midway, the Solomons, and the Marshalls in USS MAURY (DD-401) and in USS STORMES (DD-780) at Okinawa. Taking command of USS THOMAS J. GARY (DE-326) at the age of 25 in south China, he led his five ship Escort Division on a two month cruise around the world,. Postgraduate study in Ordnance Engineering followed. He returned to the Navy’s Bureau of Ordnance where he was in charge of building the first TERRIER missiles and later the first TALOS systems. In 1955 he was commissioning commanding officer of USS FOREST SHERMAN (DD-931). More