Baltimore (CA 68) - Naval Cruise Book

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SECOND DIVISION All hands topside for scrub down. This is the word you hear a minute after reveille. So begins a typical day for the Second Division. After quarters, the division splits into two groups - the well - tanned topside sailors and the ghosthke lower deck men start their as- signed jobs. Over the side, Byrne, and paint the chain,- is the order from Lockhard who is in charge of the forecastle crew. Hood, man that line. Don ' t lower him down too far, that ' s enough, stop ! .... oh well, how ' s the water, Byrne ? Getting to the wooden deck, we see Sanders directing Benefito, Chadbourne, and Hale to heave around on that line as they set the boat boom in place. Look busy. snaps Gould to Rudzinski and Kennedy, -here comes Mijal and I ' ve got to make points. ' Smith and his lower deck men have their hands full keeping their spaces clean. Leading Seaman Ferguson manages to keep Yesel, Wagner, and O ' Laughlin on the job with his thorough inspections. Other lower deck sailors are the two inseparable gold dust twins, Williams and Sigler. Russell, Tangeman, Carpenter, and Imsdabl often get to talking to the breech-blocks of Number Two turret, which they lovingly keep clean. Donaldson, Zaleski, and Newland keep the guns ready for action - though at present they ' re holding personal grudges against the A-end. In the sports world, the Second has Bartlett and Phillips on the boxing team and Voce is one of the top baseball pitchers. With Stigall on the harmonica and guitar, Rowell on the uke, and DeAngelis doing the vocal, the di -ision is planning to charge ad- mission to its compartment music hall. .Although the guys often razz Cutre about his long hair and Glenn about his sore feet, they will never forget when Means sneezed his fal e teeth on the deck and had a hard time finding them. But you don ' t have to look hard for the Sec- ond Division - we ' re always manned and ready. Will,.m, Uoneltu Hai Baldwin, aeuer

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, KIIODES TllF, bl K OF l,M» E ' Rhode , i-land of the sun odde s and of roees, greeted us willi her perfect chmate - always sunny with a i iilin ; hreeze - and made our sta there a mo-t pleasant one. ic Has. .),• ,; 1 ne (if the eleunest places we have visited, Hhoiles was an arrhitertural mixture of Greek, Bvzantuie. and Moroi ran. Flowers lined every -Ireet, curled around while huildings, and contrasted with the intense green of the vegetation and the clear, deep l)lu.- of the water surrounding the island. and th( W e wandered into th ears ago - looking as though partlalK rebuilt it. died city and found it much as it must have been had purposely gutted it with fire and then only The people of Rhodes worked at a variety of trades, the main one appearing to c. ramies, with plates, mugs, va es, and titles in authentic Greek designs to be seen A tour of the island took us to the Acropolis of Rhodes, and to an old monastery, h im a hill and commanding a majestic view of the island, the «ea, and, across the water, rkex. We stoppe.l in the ale of the huttertliev. who made a dense cloud of fluttrnng ig- when disturbed b a branch-prodder. We experimented with Greek dishes - finding -in- ine-lea es and a strange honey-co ered cake especially interesting. m - beaches, many of us spent what extra Dodecanese area. had, before