Baltimore (CA 68) - Naval Cruise Book

Page 84 text:

r--'--f su f H She whom we relieved - --1 T ,, cfff Q fe ie H- I dv E Wx liiq .1 21 'l '40 N x v fi-- i g 1 .!,,f - T , , ' iv -s ', , L ' ' Lv' gf! Ti? s .--+24 - f ff l s5r K ,Z BELOW: The way in BOTTOM: . . . our hard working shore paTrol scaTTered . . . An erosionally exposed inTruded dome rising above The submergenT shoreline oT The norThwesTern lv1ediTerranean coasT, is whaT The 6eologisT would call iT, buT To us iT was iusT The Rock, our TirsT porT oT call aT The beginning oT a second long six monThs wiTh The SixTh FleeT, lT wasn'T long beTore we had our TirsT Med liberTy call and seT OTT Tor The Town, sprawled aT The TooT OT The rnaiesTic gianT Towering above iT. The one main sTreeT was lined wiTh many IiTTIe shops where The English speaking Spanish residenTs made Their bid Tor The Yankee dollar. Here, however, iT came ouT in pounds, shillings, and ha-pennys, much To The conTusion oT The new iniTiaTes oT The crew, who did noT have The ex- perience oT The old salTs who made The cruise lasT year. BuT even The old salTs Tound someThing new when iT waS discovered ThaT The Spanish border To La Linea had been opened, and ThaT liberTy boaTs were running across The bay

Page 83 text:

Two days don'f Iasf very long, especially when fhey are busy days, and if seemed fhe lines had no sooner been se- cured fhan if was fime fo fhrow fhem off again and head ouf info fhe open sea-desfinafion Europe, and fhe sunny slime of fhe lvlediferranean Sea. Buf fhere was one iob fo do firsf, before we could sef our course easf. A group of Senafors and Congressmen had come down fo see fhe Navy in acfion, and we had fo pro- vide fhe acfion-and provide if we did. The demonsfrafion included all fhe acfivifies of a fasf carrier faslc force af sea, including refueling, fransferring of personnel and freighf, flighf operafions, aerial gunnery and bombing, faslc force facfical maneuvering, and of course, anfi-aircraff firing. lf was primarily in fhis lasf fhaf fhe Balfimore played her parf, and fhis fime we weren'f firing af a fowed sleeves buf af fhe airplane ifself, an Pol: fargef drone. The Coral Sea opened up firsf wifh her fhree inch, buf fhere was liffle doubf in anyones mind fhaf fhe killing shof fhaf broughf fhe plane spinning down in flames and pieces was a five inch bursf from fhe Balfimore. Then, wifh our iob done, we furned easf and headed our bow info fhe long, rolling swells of fhe Aflanfic, looking ahead foward fhe deep blue wafers of fhe lvlediferranean, and our second summer of dufy wifh fhe Unifed Sfafes Sixfh Fleef. 10 f l l ,iff fy Commence firing! J f- if x r x y Uflg TT ,rf jg - Kiki- -'AL .- ,Q Y fi , ' ff- x 5 If x Q f 7 f ? af, - ff V ? 725-E ,Vg 5 54 4 5 W fn 4 l musf go clown +o fhe sea again .

Page 85 text:

.C.C. To The liTTle Spanish Town oT Algeciras. lT was in Algeciras, and on The Tour To Seville, ThaT we really goT The Teel oT Spanish lil3erTy wiTh iTs cheap, good beer, The lovely darlc' eyed senoriTas, The liTTle burros wiTh Their loads They were losT under, and The beauTiTul churches wiTh Their graceTul Towers-all oT which made us loolc Torward To our reTurn To a Spanish porT laTer in The summer. Main sTreeT-Gibral+ar Rising maiesTically from The sea, a symbol of permanence . . . among The many beauTiTul Towers of Seville W ,Q ' . .53 im 9 81