Baltimore (CA 68) - Naval Cruise Book

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Early in June we leTT The SixTh EleeT and sTeamed norTh- ward along The coasT oT Europe. DesTinaTion - England: where we were To represenT The UniTed STaTes Navy in The CoronaTion Naval Review oT Queen ElizabeTh Il. Our TirsT slap was PorTland, where we puT The Tinishing Touches on our Tull dress regalia. WeymouTh was our liberTy porT, a very pleasanlr liTTle English seaside resorT, where w.e Tound we could speak The naTive Tongue, even if we did sTill have Trouble wiTh Their money. BuT London was The big aTTrac- Tion. We expecTed London To be big, and iT was: we expecTed iT To be inTeresTing and iT was. IT was all we had heard abouT and more, wiTh iTs well organized Tube sysTem, double decker buses, quainT old Taxis, and colorTul miniaTure homes. We had very liTTle Time in London, buT managed To visiT all The TradiTional places: The Tower oT London, ParliamenT, Picadilly Circus, TraTalgar Square . . , We waTched The changing oT The guard aT Buckingham Pal- ace, saw Grosvenor Square, wiTh iTs sTaTue of PresidenT Roosevelt and of course, WesTminsTer Abbey, where The new Queen had been crowned a Tew days beTore our ar- rival. We were pleasanTly surprised To Tind ThaT London was noT really The cold, ausTere place we had always imagined iT To be. buT was, raTher, a warm, Triendly, alive, and ex- ciTing ciTy To visiT. Piccadilly Circus . no elephanTs S Queen's guard-Buckingham BELOW: WesTminsTer . . . wiTh CoronaTion addenda BOTTOM: Her Maiesfy passes: The ciTy cheers

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Aller our all loo briel slay in Porlland we moved lo lake our place in Hue greal Heel galluering in Hue Solenl, be- lween Hue Isle ol Wiglul and Spilluead. From all parls ol Hue world Huey came, sluips large and small: lrom sixleen nalions, lo pay lribule lo Hue new sovereign ol Hue Brilislu Empire, Queen Elizabellu ll. Ballimore luad Hue place Ol luonor, lueading Hue line ol Hue represenlalive sluips lrom loreign nalions, Our neiglubor was Hue migluly Brilislu Bal- Hesluip Vanguard, luosl sluip lo us during our slay, l-lospilalily was Hue order ol Hue day, and Hue Royal Navy lurned oul lo be a royal luosl, wiHu parlies, recep- lions, leas, and dances every day lor everyone, Tlue lown ol Porlsmoullu luad ils welcome mal oul lo luelp in any way il could lo malce our slay a memorable one. Two seclion liberly was granled luere, and everyone wenl asluore, de- spile Hue luour-long. somelimes wel ride lo Hue beaclu. And as Hue days passed, Hue lines conlinued lo grow, eiglul ol Huem in all, eaclu seven miles long, unlil Hue wluole cluannel, as lar as Hue eye could see, was lruly a sea ol sluips and a loresl ol masls. Carriers, cruisers, lrigales, de- slroyers, mine vessels, auxiliaries-every lype ol navy sluip lcnown lo modern sea warlare was presenl lo sluow Hue Queen, and Hue world, Hue assembled miglul ol Hue Royal Navy. Plumb-slemmed channel cullers and sleek yacluls conlrasled Hue color ol llueir sails wiHu Hue business-like gray ol Hue men-ol-war, as siglulseers by Hue Huousands loolc lo Hue waler lo see Hue Heel close up. As Hue day ol Hue Review approaclued, greal aclivily was evidenl on every sluip as Hue linal louclues were added, rigging ol ligluls compleled, crews inslrucled in Hueir iobs ol lfuandling Hue vasl numbers ol visilors wluo would be aboard on Review Day, and assigned Hueir places al Hue rail. Tluen Hue aclivily ceased, and Hue lime was near al luand. U.S.S. Ballimore--glowing emissary TOP: The Sverdlov-U.S.S.R. ABOVE: Amerigo Vespucci-Ilaly BELOW: Navy cluow-Yanlr slyle BOTTOM: Califorinans all Sf 79