Captain Robert Wilks Windsor, Jr., USN. In a warm-up cruise, prior to her next West-Pac deployment, USS "Currituck" made an Alaskan voyage that spanned the Aleutian Islands, operating with VP-47 equipped with P5M Marlin seaplanes. USS "Currituck", on this operation, provided the rare opportunity to visit the port of Anchorage, Alaska, and became the largest ship ever to visit that port. Fifty hours at a buoy were logged by VP-47 Commanding Officer Commander Dow and his crew. They and a storm arrived at Cold Bay at the same time. Transfer to "Currituck" by small boat was impossible.