HMS Albion (L14)
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She returned to Charleston in October to arrange for the annual Atlantic Fleet exercise. After three days in Charleston, Wainwright got underway for gunnery and missile shoots on the Atlantic Fleet weapons vary close to Puerto Rico. The warship spent the first three days of 1969 winding up her third and closing tour of responsibility as PIRAZ ship after which set a course for the Philippines, the first pause on her method dwelling. Her operations from her home port, including Operation "Rugby Match" workouts in the West Indies, lasted until she sailed for the western Pacific on 24 June. Following native operations there, the guided missile destroyer embarked upon her first deployment to the western Pacific on 10 April. On 25 August, the guided missile destroyer stood out of Charleston, bound for her third and final deployment to the western Pacific along side the Vietnam War. USS Wainwright (DLG/CG-28), a Belknap-class destroyer chief, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for members of the Wainwright family