Mount Vernon (AP 22) - Naval Cruise Book

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P ' it will be these who will have known the USS Mount Vernon , and who will call her mennory blest. . .

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More than four years had passed since that day In San Francisco when Navy crews first came aboard the Mount Vernon — years spent in con- stant sailing, as a connecting link between ports throughout the world. Through the sub-infested waters of a world at war she logged the amaz- ing total of 363,000 miles of travel. On her decks and through her pas- sageways have teemed more than 315,000 troops, casualties, prisoners, and refugees — bound for the fighting fronts or returning home from the realities of war. The end of hostilities did not complete the task of the Mount Vernon . Her duty as one of the Navy ' s largest transports became the returning of millions of victorious troops home — a fitting task to close her Naval career. Coming years will change her appearance and de-commissioning will begin the metamorphosis that will cover the dull Navy gray with white and black brilliance. New thousands of passengers in the future will en- joy the pleasures of peace time voyages. But they will not know the real Mount Vernon . It will be the sweating, milling soldiers whom she carried to the ex- tremities of the earth, the grim veterans whom she returned home, the men who tended her boilers in the heat of the Pacific, the men who manned her guns in the gray chill of the Atlantic dawn, men whose com- radeship and indomitable spirit found in her intangible personality which shaped their existence —

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ROUND THE WORLD TRIP 2 June 1941 fo 3 1 March 1942 San Francisco, California, USA Balboa, Canal Zone Colon, Panama Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA New York City, New York, USA Norfolk, Virginia, USA Halifax, Nova Scotia Trinidad, BWI Cape Town, Union of South Africa Mombassa, Kenya Colony, Africa Addu Atoll, Maldive Itlandt Singapore Aden, Arabia Suez, Egypt Aden, Arabia Colombo, Ceylon Freemantle, Australia Adelaide, Australia Wellington, New Zealand San Francisco, California, USA PACIFIC CRUISES 22 April to 8 June 1942 San Francisco, California, USA Adelaide, Australia San Francisco, California, USA 1 6 June to 30 June 1942 San Francisco, California, USA Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands San Francisco, California, USA 24 July to I September 1942 San Francisco, California, USA Wellington, New Zealand Auckland, New Zealand Sydney, Australia San Francisco, California, USA 6 September to 18 September 1942 San Francisco, California, USA Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands San Francisco, California, USA 24 September to 2 November 1 942 San Francisco, California, USA Auckland, New Zealand Sydney, Australia Wellington, New Zealand San Francisco, California, USA 5 November to 17 November 1942 San Francisco, California, USA Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands San Francisco, California, USA 25 November to 27 December 1942 San Francisco, California, USA San Pedro, California, USA Noumea, New Caledonia Suva, Fiji San Francisco, California, USA 20 January to 20 February 1 943 San Francisco, California, USA San Diego, California, USA Auckland, New Zealand San Francisco, California, USA 10 March to 2 1 April 1943 San Francisco, California, USA San Diego, California, USA Noumea, New Caledonia Melbourne, Australia Wellington, New Zealand Auckland, New Zealand San Diego, California, USA San Francisco, California, USA 9 May to II June 1943 San Francisco, California, USA Sydney, Australia Auckland, New Zealand San Francisco, California, USA 21 June to 26 August 1943 San Francisco, California, USA Sydney, Australia Auckland, New Zealand Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands Sydney, Australia San Francisco, California, USA 19 September to 2 I October 1943 San Francisco, California, USA San Diego, California, USA Noumea, New Caledonia San Francisco, California, USA 6 November to 10 December 1943 San Francisco, California, USA