In 1960, after rioting in Japan forced the unexpected collapse of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's planned visit to Tokyo, the President sailed to Taiwan aboard the heavy cruiser USS Saint Paul CA-73 along a course that took him within 150 miles of the potentially hostile Chinese mainland, escorted by a Seventh Fleet protective force that included 100 planes, the aircraft carriers USS Yorktown CV-10 and USS Ticonderoga CV-14 and four destroyers.