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deployed to the Mediterranean for the second time on 3 April 1964 and returned to the United States on 1 September. After a three-week upkeep period, she resumed local operations by escorting
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refugee family adrift on the ocean some 35 miles from Key West and brought them into that port. Through the fall of 1970,
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606:Holy Loch
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566:Tringa
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167:knots
162:Speed
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1035:help
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