Mount Vernon (AP 22) - Naval Cruise Book

 - Class of 1946

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, wyfdw W 'Sw N roll in! The Coasf Guardsmen became seasiclc when fhey saw his I ' d escorfs: Boden, Bufler, and fhe resf of fhe ships gunners mafes, an fhe sea rolled in. Eafing places and bars were found everywhere. ln facf, a marriage was performed in one of fhe bars, wifh fhe crew of fhe Mounf Vernon parficipafing. Those who felf foo crowded in fhe cify proper spread ouf over fhe bay area and in fhe fowns down fhe peninsula. Ships musf sail, however, and accomplish fheir missions. The Mounf Vernon was no excepfion. She leff San Francisco on various frips bound for Adelaide, Sydney, and Melbourne, Ausfraliag Auclcland and Welling- fon, New Zealand, Noumea, New Caledonia: Suva, Fiji, Milne Bay, New Guinea, Honolulu and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: and Bombay, lndia. Even San Francisco could nof hold a froopship forever.

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FQR THE NEXT TWC YEARS' San Francisco was fo represenf America fo fhe crew. Passing under fhe Golden Gafe Bridge meanf sfafeside liberfyl Fourfeen frips fo fhe islands of fhe Pacific climaxed in a refurn fo fhe cify. Always a favorife porf of fhe crew, San Francisco afforded a rollick- ing fime, despife fhe facf fhaf money disappeared in a shorf period. Sfories have been fold of sailors greasing fhe rails of fhe cable cars, making fhe descenf of California Sfreef uninferrupfed, and much fasfer fhan usual. Rafioning of golf balls limifed fhe ioy of playing on 'rhe cify's golf links, parficularly wifh fhe dog leg hole leading info 'rhe ocean. Swim- ming was foo cool for comforf affer fhe men became accusfomed fo fhe Soufh Pacific beaches. An hour before sunsef fhe ship's personnel mingled wifh fhe crowd gafhered af fhe Top of fhe Mark , selecfing fhe choice window seafs and wafching fhe nighf creep up on fhe cify. Lafer in fhe evenings fhe lnfernafional Sefflemenf felf fhe presence of fhe Mounf Vernon' gang. Nellie Nelson announced his arrival in one bar filled wifh Coasf Guardsmen by shoufing, Sfandby, shallow wafer, Lef fhe deep blue sea I 2 1



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Adelaide, Ausiralia is abou+ -an hour's +rain ride up +he river from lhe por+. The frain, running from +he porl +o 'rhe cify, is pulled by an engine purchased from ihe s+al'esg 'rhe model was popular here in ihe eighleen hundreds, and 'rhe 'rrain ierks, and losses, and s'rops, if seems, every several hundred yards. Cu+ off from ihe resi' of Auslralia by a chain of mouniains, 'lihe ci+y is a quie+, overgrown couniry lown. Like all cilies of English design, ii' appears old and worn. Adelaide is noi' large, buf whaf if lacks in size, if makes up in fhe number of pubs. There were no acfivifies un1'il eve- ning, +hen, in +he blackouf, +he glow of cigareffes marked +he lines of people awai+ing enfrance +o +he +hea+res. ln +he blackoul' +he sound of foofsfeps was amplified. This sound rose in volume as fhe 1'hea'rres loosed 'rheir crowds onfo fhe s+ree'rs.

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