Newport Navalog

WELCOMED ABOARD
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CAPT Charles O. Cook, Jr., center is shown being welcomed aboard by RADM Henry Crommelin, Naval Base Commander, upon assuming duties as Chief of Staff to the Admiral. CAPT Daniel Carlson, left, who has been serving as Acting Chief of Staff since last August, will become Special Projects Officer to the Base Commander.

Former DesRon 14 Commander
New Naval Base
Chief Of Staff

CAPT Charles O. Cook, Jr., former Commander, Destroyer Squadron Fourteen, assumed duty as Chief of Staff to RADM Henry Crommelin, Naval Base Commander at Newport, today.

CAPT Cook relieves CAPT Daniel Carlson of 49 Berkley Ave., who has been serving as Acting Chief of Staff since last August. CAPT Carlson will serve as Special Projects Officer for the Admiral until his retirement this May.

The new Chief of Staff was born in Chicago, Ill., in 1911. Educated in the public schools of Detroit, Mich., he entered the U. S. Naval Academy and graduated with the class of 1931. He served at sea during the next seven years in destroyers, battleships, and auxiliaries. In 1938 he attended the U. S. Naval Post-graduate School as a student in the General Line Course.

In 1939, he reported aboard the USS Helena for duty and was engineering officer of that ship until she was sunk off the Solomon Islands in 1943. He next went to the cruiser USS Houston as navigator and had advanced to the position of executive officer when he was detached near the close of the war. His next duty station was that of executive officer of the NROTC Unit, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H.

In 1948, he returned to sea for a three year tour in the Destroyer Force, U. S. Atlantic Fleet, first as Commanding Officer, USS R. H. McCard, then as personnel officer on the force staff, and then as Commander Escort Destroyer Division 62. Thereafter he reported to the National War College, Washington, D. C., spending one year there as a student and remaining for two or more years as a member of the staff. In 1954, he took command of the USS Conecuh, returning a year later to Washington for duty on the staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

In December of 1957 he assumed duties as Commander Destroyer Squadron Fourteen, a post he held until reporting for his present duty.

CAPT Cook is married to the former Margaret Hammond, daughter of the late CAPT Philip H. Hammond, USN, of Alabama. Mrs. Cook has Rhode Island ancestry. Her mother's parents were the late RADM and Mrs.

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John R. Edwards of Bristol, R. I.
CAPT
and
Mrs. Cook have
three daughters, Peggy 19, Mary
12.
and
Catherine
3.
They
are
now
residing
in Quarters
G
on
Coasters Harbor Island.