Mauna Loa (AE 8) - Naval Cruise Book

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While the decontamination team is out, other members of the repair parties drill at messing on battle stations. The repair party officer keeps a constant plot of all contamination and damage which resulted from the initial blast.

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Finally the word is passed over the IMC that the ship is clear of all contamination. The people who have been topside decontaminating must re- move their protective clothing and be checked out for contamination which they may have picked up.

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Ba rcelona (Catalonia), the capital of Cata- lonia, with a population of nearly 2,000,000, is a large and impressive city of Carthaginian and Ro- man origin, once the capital of the Kingdom of Ara- gon, Catalonia, and Castile, famous in war and commerce, with the whole Mediterranean under its control. Today it is a progressive, busy city, a large seaport, and the starting place for ships to the Canary and Balearic Islands. Like all large Span- ish cities Barcelona consists of the old and the new. The modern city shows all the signs of pro- gress and emancipation, with fine buildings and broad avenues radiating from the Plaza de Catalonia, the principal square. Around there are theaters, music halls, amusements and gay night life. The performances at the celebrated Opera House, Teatro del Liceo, and at the Palacio de las Musica Cata- lana compare, favorably with those at La Scala, Milan. The opera season lasts throughout the autumn and winter. The citizens, who throng the streets are striking in appearance: the women chic, elegant, and graceful, the men handsome and smartly dressed.