Mount Vernon (AP 22) - Naval Cruise Book

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More +han four years had passed since ihai day in San Francisco when Navy crews firsl came aboard lhe Moun+ Vernon --years speni in con- slanl' sailing, as a conneciing linl: beiween porfs ihroughoui ihe world. Through +he sub-infesied warers oi a world ai war she logged lhe amaz- ing +o'ral of 363,000 miles of iravel. On her declcs and rhrough her pas- sageways have feemed more ihan 3I5,000 iroops, casualiies, prisoners, and refugees-bound for ihe fighiing fronls or re+urning home from fhe realiries of war. The end of hosiilifies did no? compleie ihe faslc of The Moun+ Vernon . Her du+y as one of +he Navy's largesi iransporls became The reiurning of millions of vicforious lroops home-a fiiiing raslc fo close her Naval career. Coming years will change her appearance and de-commissioning will b 1 o 0 egm fhe mefamorphosis fhal will cover fhe dull Navy gray wifh while and black brilliance. New rhousands of passengers in 'lhe furure will en- ioy +he pleasures of peace lime voyages. Bui lhey will nof lcnow 'rhe real Moun+ Vernon . H will be ille Sweallflq. milling soldiers whom she carried +0 The eX- + . . , remihes of 1'he earfh, 'rhe grim veferans whom she refurned home, 'I'he men who iended her boilers in fhe heaf of 'rhe Pacific 'rhe men who manned he' QUUS in fhe Qfdy chill of +he A+Ian+ic dawn, men whose com- radeship and indomilable ' '+ f shaped fheir exisfence- spurs ound in her in+angible personalify wl'IiCl'l

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RGUND THE WORLD TRIP 2 June l94I fo 3I March I942 San Francisco, California, USA Addu Afoll, Maldive Islands Balboa, Canal Zone Sln9aPo'e ' Colon, Panama Aden, Arabia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Sueli E9YPi New York Cify, New York, USA Norfolk, Virginia, USA Halifax, Nova Scofia Trinidad, BWI Cape Town, Union of Soufh Africa Mombassa, Kenya Colony. Africa 22 April fo 8 .lune I942 San Francisco, Ca ifornia, USA Adelaide, Ausfralia San Francisco, Ca ifornia,,USA I6 .lune fo 30 . une l942 San Francisco, Ca ifornia, USA Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands San Francisco, Ca ifornia, USA 24 .luly fo I Sepfember I942 San Francisco, Ca ifornia, USA Wellingfon, New Zealand Auckland, New Zea Sydney, Ausfralia land Aden, Arabia Colombo, Ceylon Freemanfle, Ausfralia Adelaide, Ausfralia Wellingfon, New Zealand San Francisco, California, USA PACIFIC CRUISES 20 January fo 20 February I943 San Francisco, California, USA San Diego, California, USA Auckland, New Zealand San Francisco, California, USA IO March lo 2 I April I943 San Francisco, California, USA San Diego, California, USA Noumea, New Caledonia Melbourne, Ausfralia Wellingfon, New Zealand Auckland, New Zealand San Francisco, California, USA 6 Sepfember fo I8 Sepfember I942 San Francisco, California, USA Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands San Francisco, California, USA 24 Sepfember fo 2 November I942 San Francisco, California, USA Auckland, New Zealand Sydney, Ausfralia Wellingfon, New Zealand San Francisco, California, USA 5 November fo I7 November I942 San Francisco, California, USA San Diego, California, USA San Francisco, California, USA 9 May fo I I June I943 San Francisco, California, USA Sydney, Ausfralia Auckland, New Zealand San Francisco, California, USA 2 I June fo 26 Augusf I943 San Francisco, California, USA Sydney, Ausfralia Auckland, New Zealand Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands Sydney, Ausfralia Hgnglulu' Hawaiian Islands San Francisco, California, USA San Francisco, California, USA I9 Sepfember fo OC'I'Obel' 25 November fo 27 December l942 , 56 Ffancisco- California- USA San Francisco, California, USA San DIGQO. Cdllfvrhid. USA San Pedro, California, USA Noumea, New Caledonia Suva, Fiji San Francisco, California, USA I Noumea, New Caledonia San Francisco, California, USA 6 November fo I0 December I943 San Francisco, California, USA