Macon (CA 132) - Naval Cruise Book

 - Class of 1959

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Sighted dead ahead one April morning just o££ the southern end of Sicily was a Idrge sand-colored limestone island with sand-colored buildings. This — all 95 square miles of its gravel-covered soil — was Malla. Malta ' s present status as a part of the Bjitish Cuiiiinou- wealth is of historical significance. Malta, because of its strategic location, bears record of the many ci iii ations of which it has been a part. Megalitliiorfiemiiins aliound, so)iie of which you saw near St. Paul ' s Cdllirdrtil jn Mdina. ., m Maltese history began in I IQQ-B.C when the PjToene- cians settled in the islands. Then followed successive oc- cupations by the Greeks, C athaginians, and Romans.Jt was here that St. Paul was shipwrecked and remained or nearly three months. Malta later was luider the rule of the Knights of Malta to whonfKing Charles ' of Spain gave the island in 1530. The Knights tinned the archi- pelago into a fortified stronghold of Christendom. A great many chinches, monasteries, palaces and forts are a record of their occupation. - Your first impression was that the churches definitely outnumbered theatres. There are over 300 churches in Malta, or ajsproximately one for every 1000 of the popu- lation. In the towns as well as in the outlying villages, the parish church is the focus and center of community life, arid the annual fiestas are religious instead of social affairs. Many of these, fine churches and other buildings have been rebuilt following the most unrelenting aerial at- tacks ' of anv p lace in the world. From 1940 through jL»45 Malta was bombed Brcilessly over 2000 times by ' i xis airpLiaa ' ffiiese simple island-folk probably under- -Itood littt of the Hemisphere strategy which Malta figured in th ' Sir s well iiow. But these people had an indomi- table courage which earned for the entire population of falta the George Cross. His Majesty, King George VI of England, wrote to the Governor of Malta in 1942: To honor her brave people I award the George Cross to the Island Fortress of Malta, to bear witness to a heroism and devotion that xuill long he famous in history.

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- -f r r r If MALTA i These words are recorded on a plaque in the palace in Valetta, Malta ' s caoital city, which you saw on the hills which towered over your ship lying at anchor in Valetta ' s Grand Harbor. Surrounding you were public buildings and ancient forts in Valetta and Vittoriosa. Some of these forts, such as H.M.S. ST. ANGE- LO, serve as part of the British Shore Establishment. The Limeys had units of their Mediterranean fleet in the Grand Harbor and you obtained a new aware- ness of the naval strength of your tea and rum sailor cousins. Here, too, as in Gibraltar, you came face to face, literally, with the unnerving British left-hand traffic which practice, coupled with the taxi-driver ' s philoso- phical abandonment, made every ride a navigator ' s nightmare — though some- what sobering in effect.

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