Photos from Derry L. Mount, BT2, 1959-1961

Louis Armstrong plays for Gearing crew on the pier at Abidjan, Ivory Coast in 1960. CLICK HERE to see the cruise book page of the concert. "30 knots and just a tad of smoke. Had to be the after fire room. The forward fireroom never smoked." "Forward stack." "Tin cans galore." USS Lowry DD-770 is moored on the right. Does anyone recognize this port?? Email the page author.

"Heading south through the Suez Canal." "Decks awash." "Many Gearing guys heading up a mountain in Italy." Going alongside the USS Altair AKS-32 for underway replenishment "Me (Derry Mount) after a typical day in the boiler room. Always a dirty place to work but I loved it."

"Shots (above and 2 below) of the damage after we were rammed off of Norfolk." "At sea...did a lot of plane guarding which was 4 on and 4 off for the fire room watches." "Lowering the Captain's gig. Think we were near Cuba on this shot."