After a six month deployment to the Mediterranean what is the worst possible thing that can happen on your way home? That's the "Brooke" class guided missile frigate USS Talbot which had a catastrophic loss of power in Mid-Atlantic. It's wallowing around quite badly even in relatively calm seas so I can imagine a lot of "lunches were lost". My ship, the USS O'Bannon (DD 987) is preparing to rig a tow until the Talbot's engineers could restore their own power. That took most of the day and an ocean going tug came out from Norfolk to meet up with Talbot in case another tow was needed.
location: Mid-Atlantic
scan from Kodachrome slide