Ports of Call

Between the line periods came the ports — the other half of any sailor’s cruise. Constellation called at seven across the Pacific and the Gulf.

Which ports did USS Constellation visit in 1994–95?

On the 1994–95 Western Pacific and Persian Gulf deployment, USS Constellation (CV-64) made seven ports of call. In the order the crew saw them:

Pusan (Busan), South Korea — South Korea’s great southern port and second city, Busan sits where the peninsula meets the Korea Strait.
Hong Kong — Still under British administration in early 1995, Hong Kong was the classic Western Pacific liberty port.
Singapore — The crossroads of the Strait of Malacca and one of the U.S. Seventh Fleet’s most important ports.
Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates — The largest man-made harbor in the world, and the U.S. Navy’s principal liberty and logistics port in the Persian Gulf.
Perth (Fremantle), Australia — The Indian Ocean city of Western Australia, and one of the U.S. Navy’s most beloved liberty ports.
Sydney, Australia — The harbor city of New South Wales, and the port where Constellation drew her largest crowd of the cruise.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii — The home of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and the last great stop on the road home.

She left San Diego on 10 November 1994 and returned on 10 May 1995. Korea came first and Hawaii last; in between, the ship spent her line periods in the Arabian Gulf flying Operation Southern Watch, and the liberty ports fell either side of them.