Missions

03Aug53	Keel laid - Pascagoula, MS
27May55	Commissioned / Homeport = Boston, MA
DF-I (55-56)	1st IGY (International Geophysical Year) headed by RADM Byrd /Established Little America V & the Naval Air Facility at McMurdo.
DF-II (56-57)	Earliest Penetration of the pack ice arriving at McMurdo in October.
DF-III (57-58)	.
AE-58	Operation SUNEC: Resupplying north Polar radar & weather stations.
DF-IV (58-59)	.
DF-60	Received Navy Unit Commendation
DF-61	.
DF-62	.
DF-63	Longest DF-= 217 days
DF-64	.
DF-65	.
DF-66	.
30Jun66	Transferred to CG / painted white and changed homeport to Long Beach, CA
DF-67	.
DF-68	1st Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation
DF-69	.
DF-70	2nd Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation
AWS-70	.
AWW-71	.
AWS-71	.
DF-72	.
AWS-72	Painted red prior to this trip
DF-73	.
AWS-73	Deepest penetration in Weddell Sea
DF-74	3rd Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation
DF-75	.
AWS-75	.
DF-76	Crewman electrocuted (1st fatality in 21 years at sea)
AWS-76	.
AWS-77	.
DF-78	Southern most penetration into Ross Ice Shelf
AWS-78	.
DF-79	.
DF-80	Discovered 'Big Red Canyon'
DF-81	1st trip with female crewmembers (2 officers & 17 enlisteds) / Shortest DF-= 128 days
DF-82	.
DF-83	.
DF-85	.
May85	Homeport changed to Portland, OR
DF-86	.
DF-87	.
07Jun87	Decommissioned
30Oct00	President Clinton signed bill transferring GLACIER to the Glacier Society