Baltimore (CA 68) - Naval Cruise Book

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,, . ahead lay The SixTh FleeT, wiTh iTs rigorous Training program, well-calculaTed To Turn horne-soTTened sailorrnen inTo The closely-lcniT Team ThaT is a TighTing TleeT. To oThers among our crew, ThaT Tabled Rock was a gaTeway To a new and exciTing world-sTrange peoples and ciTies oT which They had only read. For each oT us in his own way, GibralTar marlcs The PoinT OT change. We live on shores washed by The ATlanTic: iTs waTers are Tamiliar. BUT The lv1ediTerranean is The cenTer oT a Tar older world, a parenT CulTure oT which we know so liTTle. As we wallced The crowded sTreeTs oT The ciTy, haggling and buying in her Tiny shops, TasTing sTrangs Toods and Tine wines, we began To appreciaTe ThaT ancienT culTure, and our kinship wiTh iT. WF f 'v . Q ' a f , 'gsififzl Trophied p0rT6lS 4-nn.........,