NOTE:  Richard Muth reports that the Des Moines left for "Gitmo" on January 2, 1958.  It then visited Kingston, Jamaica, on January 18 and 19 of 1958.
 

  ARRIVAL                             PORT                            DEPARTURE                         REMARKS

2/28/58	Gibraltar B.C.C.	2/28/58
3/9/58	Beaulieu France	3/13/58
3/13/58	Villefranche France	3/21/58
3/31/58	Villefranche France	4/10/58
3/17/58	Marseilles France	4/25/58
5/2/58	Valencia Spain	5/7/58
5/8/58	Palma Spain	5/16/58
5/25/58	Suda Bay Crete	5/27/58	R and R
6/8/58	Dikili Turkey	6/9/58	Amphibs
6/20/58	Rhodes Greece	6/24/58
7/1/58	Villefranche France	7/15/58	Summer in port period
7/18/58	Beirut Lebanon	7/19/58	Lebanon Crisis
8/14/58	Venice Italy	8/20/58
9/1/58	Naples Italy	9/8/58
9/13/58	Augusta Bay Sicily	9/17/58
9/24/58	Villefranche France	10/3/58
10/10/58	Augusta Bay Sicily	10/12/58	Fire Repairs
10/14/58	Toulon France	10/18/58
10/18/58	Villefranche France	10/27/58
11/6/58	Genoa Italy	11/14/58
11/25/58	Villefranche France	12/2/58
12/3/58	Livorno Italy	12/6/58
12/8/58	Malta B.C.C.	12/9/58
12/13/58	Augusta Bay Sicily	12/14/58
12/18/58	Villefranche France	1/5/59	Christmas in port period
1/14/59	Barcelona Spain	1/23/59
1/25/59	Zuara Libya	1/25/59	Amphibs
2/2/59	Naples Italy	2/9/59
2/10/59	Villefranche France	2/10/59	Home Port
2/20/59	Gibraltar B.C.C.	2/23/59
3/1/59	Pollensa Bay Spain	3/3/59	Fleet Turnover
3/5/59	Golfe Juan France	3/13/59
3/14/59	La Spezia Italy	3/18/59
3/27/59	Villefranche France	4/4/59
4/5/59	Palma Spain	4/9/59
4/23/59	Villefranche France	5/5/59	Home Port
5/12/59	Istanbul Turkey	5/16/59
5/18/59	Athens Greece	5/23/59
6/4/59	Venice Italy	6/9/69
6/12/59	Villefranche France	6/18/59	Home Port
6/19/59	Asinera Bay Sardinia	6/19/59
6/15/59	Derna Libya	6/25/59
6/30/59	Villefranche France	7/15/59	Home Port
7/20/59	Villefranche France	7/21/59	Home Port
7/25/59	Golfo Di Palmas	7/25/59	Fleet Anchorage
7/28/59	Cadiz Spain	7/30/59
7/30/59	Rota Spain	7/31/59
8/1/59	Lisbon Portugal	8/7/59
8/10/59	Naples Italy	8/14/59
8/18/59	Pollensa Bay Spain	8/19/59
8/24/59	Villefranche France	8/31/59	Home Port
9/3/59	Porto Scudo Sardinia	9/3/59
9/5/59	Villefranche France	9/15/59	Home Port
9/26/59	Beirut Lebanon	9/30/59
9/30/59	Cyprus	9/30/59	Admiral Luncheon
10/2/59	Dikili Turkey	10/3/59	Amphibs
10/5/59	Athens Greece	10/9/59
10/10/59	Istanbus Turkey	10/14/59
10/16/59	Patras Greece	10/16/59
10/17/59	Split Yugoslivia	10/20/59
10/22/59	Catinia Sicily	10/22/59
10/23/59	Malta B.C.C.	10/26/59
10/28/59	Villefranche France	11/9/59	Home Port
11/10/59	Toulon France	11/14/59
11/23/59	Naples Italy	11/30/59
12/3/59	Livorno Italy	12/8/59
12/11/59	Athens Greece	12/15/59	President of USA Boards
12/17/59	Tunis Tunisia	12/17/59	President visits King
12/18/59	Toulon France	12/18/59	President Departs
12/19/59	Villefranche France	1/6/60	Home Port - Christmas
1/13/60	Barcelona Spain	1/20/60
1/21/60	Pollensa Bay Spain	1/25/60	Fleet Turnover
1/26/60	Rota Spain	1/26/60
1/27/60	Lisbon Portugal	2/1/60
2/3/60	Valencia Spain	2/6/60
2/12/60	Palma Majorca	2/15/60
2/18/60	Villefranche France	2/29/60
3/2/60	Naples Italy	3/4/60
3/9/60	Istanbul Turkey	3/14/60
3/21/60	Athens Greece	3/21/60
3/22/60	Marmaris Bay Turkey	3/23/60
3/23/60	Rhodes Greece	3/26/60
3/28/60	Beirut Lebanon	4/4/60
4/8/60	Bomba Libya	4/8/60
4/15/60	Villefranche France	4/30/60
5/3/60	Augusta Bay Sicily	5/3/60
5/12/60	Brindizi Italy	5/12/60
5/13/60	Dubrovnik Yugoslavia	5/16/60
5/17/60	Venice Italy	5/23/60
5/28/60	Villefranche France	6/7/60
6/8/60	Palma Majorce	6/14/60
6/18/60	Villefranche France	6/20/60
6/20/60	Leghorn Italy	6/24/60
6/26/60	Sardinia	6/26/60
7/2/60	Villefranche France	7/16/60	Summer in port period
7/21/60	Golfe Juan France	7/21/60
7/22/60	Toulon France	7/26/60
7/29/60	Barcelona Spain	8/4/60
8/6/60	Lagos Portugal	8/7/60	Prince Henry The Navigator
8/8/60	Lisbon Portugal	8/11/60	Celebration
8/12/60	Gibraltar B.C.C.	8/14/60
8/17/60	Pollensa Bay, Mallorca	8/22/60
8/23/60	Golfe Di Palmas	8/24/60
8/25/60	La Spezia, Italy	8/26/60
8/27/60	Villefranche	8/30/60
8/31/60	Fumicino, Italy	9/1/60	1960 Olympic Games in Rome
9/2/60	Villefranche	9/12/60	Franco-American Celebration
9/14/60	Naples, Italy	9/16/60
9/16/60	Agusta Bay, Sicily	9/17/60
9/29/60	Athens, Greece	10/4/60
10/5/60	Ismir, Turkey	10/7/60
10/7/60	Rhodes, Greece	10/8/60
10/8/60	Antayla, Turkey	10/8/60
10/10/60	Beirut, Lebanon	10/16/60
10/17/60	Famagusta Bay, Cyprus	10/18/60
10/20/60	Valletta, Malta	10/22/60
10/28/60	Villefranche	11/11/60
11/18/60	Naples, Italy	11/26/60
12/3/60	Livorno, Italy	12/5/60
12/6/60	Genoa, Italy	12/10/60
12/10/60	Villefranche	12/13/60
12/14/60	Palermo, Sicily	12/15/60	COMSIXTHFLT departs
12/17/60	Villefranche	12/22/60
12/22/60	Beaulieu, France	1/3/61	Christmas In-Port Period
1/16/61	Naples, Italy	1/23/61
1/25/61	Villefranche	2/6/61
2/16/61	Pollensa Bay	2/20/61	Fleet Turn-over (That's us!)
2/22/61	Gibraltar B.C.C.	2/22/61	Good-Bye MED
	CONUS BOUND......
3/1/61	Newport, RI	3/1/61	CRUDIV Departs
3/2/61	Norfolk, VA
	NewPort News, VA
	Philadelphia, PA

NOTE:  Darrell Garner has sent me an email that one of the last ports of call was Boston, MA where the ship was decommissioned.  South Boston dry dock.  He reports that many shipmates stayed on the USS Colliton, a troop transport, while last details were finished.