Farragut (DLG 6) - Naval Cruise Book

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...Gateway to The Aegean... Rhodes is The name oT ciTy and island, The laTTer being The largesT of The Dodecanese, in The easTern NlediTerranean. The ciTy is one oT Tour large hisTorical Towns on The lsland, which are a TribuTe To Greece's ancienT glory wiTh Their ruins. Rhodes was Greek in anT- iquiTy, during The middle ages,iT became Turkish, and The Byzan- Tine influence is sTill presenT. The enTrance To Rhodes' harbor was The siTe of one oT The Seven Won- ders oT The AncienT World, The Colossus of Rhodes. This was a bronze sTaTue oT Apollo, more Than lO5 TeeT high. Ships of ThaT age could pass beTween iTs legs, someThing ThaT we could noT do, even if The Colossus were sTill sTanding. i X3 4 ,x ... x8 'f , ln Turkey they called it Ruki Pipa keeps Things moving Too ' ,NSMJ 9... ,io , Im. - . , 4: i .V '. eu V, ,V T ' Looks like a new kind of Radar

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Alongside the AE Last but not least, get it below into the magazine farm hy Another phase of the complex at-sea supply pro- blem is that of provisioning a combatant ship with ammunition and, inthe case of FARRAGUT, missiles. Specialrigs, procedures and precautions are in order for a iob like this. Rearming is not accomplished os frequently as are some other phases of underway supply, butis not less important and has much higher danger potential. Prater strains to hook up ..,..,,m Q W -M The Exec. keeps things moving 'A L--,-5,,,5,' gg. 43,4 -.H 4714. fi.'. ,s ,,

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wyagc' fa I black ca 'we-gba, Ancient Istanbul, f- J I , i, WW' 4W'W f,,Mf'Wt' ,zsvvf CKO F Castro, Havana, Cuba -MW From3 TO TO OcTober, FARRAGUT was given one of The mosT inTeresTing and un- usual missions of iTs shorT Two-year hisTory: an eighT-day operaTing assignmem' in The Black Sea. In recenT years Tew UniTed STaTes or NATO ships have had such an opporTuniTy. NauTic'al access To The Black Sea is gained by only one rouTe, The narrow and picTuresque Turkish STraiTs, consisTing Cfrom wesT To easTj of The Dardanelles, The Sea of Marmara, and The Bosphorus. The Bosphorus, much The narrowesT of The group, is aT some places only a quarTer-mile wide. The ancienT and inTriguing city of isTanbul, wiTh its Tower- ing minareTs and mosques, guards The wesTern enTrance To The Bosphorus, facing The Sea of Marmara. The Three uniTs of The Turkish STraiTs Torm one of The world's mosT sTraTegic waTerways, separaTing as They do Europe from Asia. They have been a source of TricTion beTween Turkey and Russia Tor cenTuries. During our brief period in The Black Sea FARRAGUT Tre- quently encounTered Russian merchanT and naval ships, and made sTops aT Two small Turkish porTs, Eregli and Trabzon. FARRAGUT passes under fha guns Turkish gunbouts on the Bosporus of an ancient Turkish Fort.