That's a helluva story...
That was the same training cruise that we shelled a Japanese freighter with the 5" main battery salvos. Fortunately, we only bracketed them; no hits.
The floating target was about 180 degrees away...OOPS!
Oh, and one of our two destroyer-escorts sideswiped a Japanese lumber ship while pulling out of port at Eureka; that cost them several weeks getting repairs in Hunter's Point.
Unforgettable voyage for a young man!