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The table below contains the names of sailors who served aboard the USS Worden (CG 18). Please keep in mind that this list does only include records of people who submitted their information for publication on this website. If you also served aboard and you remember one of the people below you can click on the name to send an email to the respective sailor. Would you like to have such a crew list on your website?
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There are 840 crew members registered for the USS Worden (CG 18).
Select the period (starting by the reporting year): precomm – 1964 | 1965 – 1966 | 1967 – 1970 | 1971 | 1972 – 1973 | 1974 – 1975 | 1976 – 1977 | 1978 – 1979 | 1980 – 1981 | 1982 – 1983 | 1984 – 1985 | 1986 – 1987 | 1988 – 1989 | 1990 | 1991 – now
| Name | Rank/Rate | Period | Division | Remarks/Photo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hennessey, Don | BMS3 | 0000 – | Boswain | |
| Clouser, Cliff | RD2 | 1962 – 1966 | OI | Thanks to the Worden I never got seasick on any ships. 1962 -1982 I served on the USS Worden, USS Providence, USS Noa, USS America, USS Coronado, USS Saipan, USS Carl Vinson. They told me to shave my beard so I retired as a W2. Still have my beard. |
| Johnson, Gene | RD2 | 1962 – 1966 | Ops | Precomm,Comm,Detail,Shellback,PanamaCanal, etc., etc. Best damn FRIGATE in USN. Looking for contact info for the radar gang..Robert Miller, Chuck Bullion, and Frank Delavara |
| Fogliani, Neil | CIVILIAN ENGINEER | Jan 1962 – Apr 1964 | Civilian Engineer (Sperry Rep) assigned ship rider for SQTs & crew training. Plank owner, Shellback & Order of the Locks while on Board "DLG-18". | |
| Swartz, Frank | MM3 | Jan 16, 1962 – Jul 16, 1968 | navy | I helped put the USS Worden in commission Aug. 3 1963 til 25 March 1966. |
| Swartz, Frank M. | SR | Jan 16, 1962 – Mar 25, 1966 | Engineer,Cadet | I am the widow of Frank M. Swartz. I"m Frances M.Swartz.I'm looking for one of his shipmates named Orville Toby.He was from Oregon.Frank and Orville hitchhiked from Great Lakes, Ill. to Jamestown,N.Y. on a weekend pass. |
| Payne, Darrell | GMM1 | Apr 1962 – Feb 1965 | 2nd | Plank Owner. |
| Swartz, Francy | na | May 1962 – May 1968 | navy mm3 | My dad was on the ship he passed away 2 years ago. I wanted to see if anyone on here know him. Frank M Swartz |
| Henley, Jim | RD2 | 1963 – 1965 | Operations | Plank Owner - Ops Officer was Marcus A. Arnheiter - Read "The Arnheiter Affair" by Neil Sheehan. I have many great memories from those days. |
| Craig, Charles S (Chuck) | EM 2 | 1963 – 1965 | Eng | Good times in Bath Me. While waiting for the Ship to be built. Still Haven't grown hair back since the ship went across the Equator heading for the west coast. |
| Patton, Chester Arthur | Seaman | 1963 – 1965 | First | Patton deceased.He & I enlisted on buddy system '61. Our 1st duty sta.NAU Lake Mead Base,Las Vegas.From there I went to USS Radford DD446, He went to Worden plankowner. Know of him? bnltaylor44@yahoo.com miss him. T |
| Baldwin, Arthur | SN | 1963 – 1965 | Navigation | I retired 06 from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Texas. I now live in Sarasota, FL. Iam a Shellback/Plankowner It would be great to hear from my fellow shipmates,that is if I can remember that far back? |
| Murri, Lynn | QM3 | Jan 1963 – Nov 1965 | Navigation | Plake owner, Member of the first crew to sail on her from Boston to Home port in San diego.Deployed two times to the Gulf of Tonkin.Served a four mo.extension on the last depolyment. |
| Ferguson, Michael / Mike | RD3 | Feb 10, 1963 – Sep 15, 1965 | OI | The years I grew up,,, from the time when Marcus Aurelius tried to block my leave to get married in 63 through the west pac cruse in 64, 65...... I am looking for a copy of that cruse book |
| Wolfe, Arnold | EM2 | May 1963 – Aug 22, 1969 | R | plank owner |
| Jim, Coppinger | FTM3 | May 1963 – Jun 1966 | 2nd Division | I was on the commissioning crew of the ship and would like to arrange a commissioning crew reunion, perhaps some time in September, 2013. |
| Koch, Peter | BT1 | May 4, 1963 – Feb 24, 1967 | Engineering | |
| Steffen, Bruce | QM2 | May 25, 1963 – Apr 20, 1967 | n | i am a plank owner on the worden, joined the ship in boston mass. in 1963 and spent the next 4 years on board. this ship was the best time of my 10 year enlistment. alot of good friends and good times. |
| Thompson, Richard | ETR2 | Jun 1963 – Mar 4, 1965 | OE | Worden Plankowner, transferred from USS Turner Joy DD951. I firmly beleive I served on the two best Ships in the Navy. |
| Rienhardt, Art | BT3 | Jun 1963 – Jan 6, 1966 | engineering | Plank owner. Where is everybody? |
| Staub, Nevin | GMM 3 | Jun 3, 1963 – Jun 1966 | 3RD | PLANK OWNER THREE WEST PAC. CRUISES |
| Burns, Robert | BT,3 | Jun 7, 1963 – Sep 26, 1966 | B. | |
| Sowa, Richard | MM3 | Jun 17, 1963 – Jan 6, 1966 | M | Plankowner / Shellback-can't believe they sunk her ! |
| Morgan, Travis Wayne | MM3 | Aug 1963 – Dec 17, 1965 | ENG | Plankowner. Had a Good Time Aboard |
| Lamattina, Bill | RD2 | Aug 3, 1963 – Sep 21, 1966 | OI | |
| Baldwin, Arthur | SM | Aug 3, 1963 – Apr 13, 1965 | Navigation | Plank Owner / Shellback |
| Anderson, Gerald(andy) | BTFN | Aug 3, 1963 – Dec 10, 1965 | Shellback/plank owner | |
| Symons, David L. | YN3 | Aug 3, 1963 – 1964 | WEAPON YEOMAN | WENT THRU PRECOMM...COMMISIONING, PLANK-OWNER..CROSSED EQUATOR...PANAMA CANEL..TRANSFERRED TO COMDESDIV 152 ON RETURN TO SAN DIEGO HOME PORT... BEST SHIP IN THE NAVY.... |
| Leocadio, Reynaldo | SD1/E6 | Aug 3, 1963 – | Supply | This is for my stap father that passed a few years back and I am trying to find some of his shipmates from this era. |
| Tobey Jr., Orville Kenneth | FN | Aug 3, 1963 – May 1965 | Electrical | I loved this ship, My Buds = Bill Oros, Frank Swartz, We hiked all over the world I think.We had some great times, saw a lot of country on foot. Wolf was My boss I can hear him say,"Turn too lets get with it "Shellback". |
| Belote, Thomas G (Jerry) | sfp2 | Aug 3, 1963 – | damage control | In the navy from 60 to 65 transferred to the Worden from the St Paul spent a month or 6 weeks in Rhode Island caught the ship in Boston for sea trials |
| Dusold, Donald | FTM | Aug 11, 1963 – 1966 | Radar | Need to talk to anyone who remembers the test misile we shot that almost came back and hit our ship! Please email Thanks |
| Morgan, Travis | MM3 | Aug 16, 1963 – Dec 17, 1965 | ENG | Plank Owner/Shellback Had A Great Time |
| Voivod, Richard (Vd) | QM3 | Aug 16, 1963 – Aug 16, 1966 | Navagation | Would like to hear from people who knew me. I also was the ships photographer and took a lot of the pictures in the cruise book. I'm now retired from the school district and I live in California near Sacramento. |
| Green, Theodore | SN3 | Sep 1963 – 1965 | 1st Div | I was on the commissioning crew (plank owner), Shellback, and first WESPAC cruise. |
| Fredric Merrill, Unknown | BT | Jan 1, 1964 – Jan 1, 1968 | B | I am His Son Add This To The Site Fredric Merrill Died In May 8 1994 Any One Please Send Email If you Know My Dad Thank You |
| Sappington, Tom | BT1 | Mar 1, 1964 – Dec 1, 1968 | B | Came on board as a BT3 after the ship had its commissioning. Would any of the snipes email me from that time. I went on to retire as a BTCM, |
| Brian, Kemsley | E3 COOK STRIKER | Mar 31, 1964 – Mar 21, 1965 | Supply | To this day I miss my ship and crew. It was home for only a year but the memories will never leave me. |
| Jackson, Gerald E. ''jack'' | MR3 | Nov 1964 – May 1967 | A Div | Made two westpacs and went on my only ride on SAR helo.Worked with Sykes, Ogletree, H. Monroe, M. Mead, CPO's Plummer and Spencer and many more fine sailors in Worden. Retired in 1980 as MRC. |
| Trice, Ronald | RD 3 | Dec 1964 – Jul 1967 | radar |
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