FFG 58 Wins Battle E
On 10 April 1988, USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58) received word that the ship had won the Battle E award for Surface Group Four, beating out the squadron's seven other frigates for the October 1986-March 1988 battle efficiency awards cycle. The Roberts also earned mission Es in eight categories, including anti-air warfare, anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, electronic warfare, engineering.
Cmdr. Paul X. Rinn, right, the Roberts' commanding officer, and BMCS (SW) George Frost, the crew's senior enlisted sailor, pose on the frigate's port bridge wing above the ship's various Battle Efficiency awards in mid-1988. Photo courtesy of Paul X. Rinn
About The Book
No Higher Honor is the first book to detail the extraordinary tale of the USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58) and the crew's heroic efforts to save the ship after it hit an Iranian mine in 1988. Drawing on years of research and scores of interviews, Bradley Peniston chronicles the origins of the Perry-class frigate; the crew's training; its operations in the Persian Gulf; the U.S. retaliation against Iran, which became the biggest surface battle since World War II; and the complex repairs that returned the ship to duty.
Published by Naval Institute Press, the 275-page book contains 20 photos, several diagrams of the damage, and a muster list of the shipmates aboard the Roberts during its fight for survival.
