USS LEAHY (DLG-16) BASIC CHRONOLOGY 1962

 
01 January - 27 July Construction, Bath Iron Works, Bath, ME
  27 July Delivered to Commandant, First Naval District
04 August  Commissioned at Bath Iron Works
05 August - 04 October  Fitting out at Boston Naval Shipyard
  04 - 06 Underway, Boston Op Area for Slow Run Through (SRT) on
weapons systems
06 October - 15 October Inport, Boston, MA for SRT deficiency corrections
15 October - 29 October  Underway, missile systems tests
29 October - 04 November Inport, Boston, MA
  4 - 5 Underway, transit to Newport, RI
  5 - 8 Inport Newport, RI for RADM Speck inspection
  8 - 9 Underway, transit to Yorktown, VA
  9 Inport for weapons loadout, Yorktown, VA
10 November - 09 December Underway, Norfolk Op Area for Ships Qualification Trials (SQT)
on missile systems
  09 - 10 Underway, ASROC SQT
  11 - 14 Underway, transit to San Juan, PR
  14 - 17 Inport, San Juan, PR
  17 - 20 Underway, Roosevelt Roads Op Area, missile SQAT
  20 - 22 Underway, transit to Boston, MA
  22 - 31 Inport, Boston, MA
 

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