Mount McKinley (AGC 7) - Naval Cruise Book

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FRENCH RIVIERA .... CANNES EI A V CANNES IS SITUATED IN THE HEART OF THE FRENCH RIVIERA, THAT STRETCH OF COAST RUNNING FIFTI MILES NORTHEAST FROM TOULON TO THE ITALIAN BORDER. BECAUSE THE WATERS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN ARE PARTICULARLY BLUE ALONG THESE SHORES, THE WHOLE REGION IS KNOWN AS THE COTE D' AzUR. IT IS PROTECTED ON THE NORTH BY THE LOWER RANGES OF THE FRENCH ALPS, TO NHICH IT ONES ITS SPECTACULAR SCENERI AND ITS M LB WINTER CLIMATE. THE SOIL IS FERTILE, PROOUCING LARGE CROPS OF OR- ANGES, LEMONS, OLIVES, AIMONDS, FIGS, PEACHES AND GRAPES. FLOWERS ARE ALSO GROWN COMMERCIALLY FOR USE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PERFUME. THE SHORELINE CONSISTS OF A SERIES OF BEAUTIFUL SAND BEACHES SEPARA- TED BY ROCKY HEABLANOS. IT IS THESE, TOGETHER NITH THE FINE CLIMATE, WHICH HAVE MADE THE RIVIERA ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST REKNOWNED RESORTS FOR OVER A CENTURY. CANNES DERIVES ITS NAME FROM THE LONG REEDS OR UCANNESU, WHICH FOR- MERLY GREW IN THE MARSH GROUND AROUND THE HARBOR. IT WAS UNDER THE DOMINION OF ROME FOR CENTURIES, BUT FELL TO THE SARACENS DURING THE 700'S AND AGAIN DURING THE 9OO'S A. D. IN THE TENTH CENTURY, CANN S CAM INTO THE POSSESSION OF THE ABBOTS OF LERINSg THEY MAINTAINED CONTROL UNTIL 1788, WHEN IT NON MUNICIPAL FREEDOM. THE MONKS CAME TO THE MAINLAND FROM THE ISLES DE LERINS OFF THE SHORE, WHERE THEY OCCUPIED A FIFTH-CENTURY MONASTERY.

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.,-- W IN ATHENS, AS IN MANY OTHER PORTS IN THE LEDITERRANEAN, NE FOUND THE UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS Cusop READY TO LAKE OUR STAY THE BEST POSSIBLE. THEIR INVALUABLE SERVICE NILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN. UPON ENTERING PORT, USO REPRESENTATIVES JOULD CONE ABOARD TO NELCOLE US, US INFORMATION ON TOURS AND INVITE US TO THEIR LOCAL USO. AT THE USO GOOD FOOD AND JHOLESOEE ENTERTAINMENT SUCH AS DANCING, SHOJS, TABLE GAM S, BOOKS AND LAGAZINES WAS MADE AVAILABLE FOR OURLENJOYMENT. ALSO AT SEVERAL PORTS SUCH AS NAPLES, ITALY AND IZLIR TURKEY, NE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT MILITARY SOCIAL CLUBS LOCATED NEARBY. DURING OUR VISIT TO NAPLES, MOUNT NCKINLEY HELD A SHIP'S PARTY WHICH WAS MOST ENTERTAINING. GIVE .-:.AL-,Avi-fb'-' 'H' ' mf A '

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IN THE CITADEL ON ANOTHER OF THEIR ISLANDS, THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK WAS CONFINED FROM 1687 TO 1698, CSTE. MARGUERITED. THE OLDEST PART OF CANNES IS THE ISOLATED ROCK CALLED MONT CHEVALIER5 HERE THE MONKS ERECT- ED THE ELEVENTH CENTURY TONER NON USED AS AN OBSERVATORY. UNTIL 183A CANNES REMAINED A HUM LE FISHING VILLAGE. IN THAT YEAR A PLAGUE OF CHOLERA THREATENED NICE AND CAUSED THE MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES TO FORBID EAST-BOUND TRAVELERS TO CROSS THE RIVER VAR. ONE OF THOSE WHO TURNED BACK TONARD CANNES NAS AN ENGLISHMAN, LORD BROUGHAM, WHO FOUND THE AREA SO ATTRACTIVE THAT HE SETTLED THERE AND INDUCED MANY OF HIS FRIENDS TO DO SO. FROM THIS BEGINNING AS A RESORT, IT HAS BECOME A FAV- ORITE NITH THE NORLD'S ARISTOCRACY5 THEIR SUMPTUOUS VILLAS AND GARDENS DOT THE SHORE AND THE SURROUNDING HILLS. FASHIONABLE HOTELS, CLUBS, RESTAURANTS, AND SHOPS HAVE SPRUNG UP UNTIL THE VILLAGE OF IOO YEARS AGO IS NOW ONE OF THE MOST GLITTERING AND SOPHISTICATED PLAYGROUNDS ON ANY CONTINENT. . g,.........,