USS Haynsworth DD700
''HER TIME IN HISTORY''
1960's

Late in 1961 while in the Mediterranean, Haynsworth delivered emergency food rations to flood-ravaged Africa.

On 3 October 1962, she stood off Cape Canaveral as a rescue ship and witnessed the take off of astronaut Comdr. Walter Schirra on his historic six-orbital flight. Later that month, under much more serious circumstances, she hastened to the Caribbean and participated in the naval quarantine of Cuba, effectively checking the Communists threat to the security of the Western Hemisphere.

In February 1963 Haynsworth deployed to the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Gulf of Aden for operations with the 6th Fleet.

After returning to Norfolk, she embarked midshipmen for an Atlantic cruise from 1 August to 10 September; then underwent overhaul at New Orleans, La., and Orange, Tex., before arriving at Galveston on 28 February 1964 to begin duty as a Naval Reserve training ship.

Assigned to Reserve Destroyer Squadron 34, Haynsworth since that time has operated out of Galveston while providing valuable on board training facilities for hundreds of Naval Reservists. Manned by a nucleus crew, she has steamed to ports along the Gulf and Atlantic coast,, and numerous training cruises have carried her into the Caribbean.

Into late-1960's she continued to bolster the strength of the Navy and the Nation through intense, skilled. and effective training which maintains the caliber and readiness of the Naval Reserve.