Yorktown (CVS 10) - Naval Cruise Book

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The chilly flight deck parade as we arrived in Rotterdam contrasted sharply with the warm reception granted Yorktown in The Netherlands I'he Dutch proved warm and personable and more than delighted to show us their cities and beautiful countryside. Tour groups visited a wooden shoe factory on one of the chapl8in'S tours. Such shoes keep a farmhand's feet dry even m the moist earth of this sub sea-level country and are left on the doorsteps at night to prevent tracking dirt into the house. A tour of Amsterdam by bus showed us the sights while later visits on our own provided greater detail. Amsterdam is but an hour from Rot- terdam by train. Canal tours. a visit to a diamond cutting factory, and shopping filled many a sailor's afternoon. The Rijksmuseum collection of over twenty ' ' al R b origin em randt's commemorates the 300th anniversary of the Dutch painter's death in 1669. Another chaplain's tour headed south to Brussels, Belgium. Site for the 1958 World's Fair, Brussels is a city of lavish gothic churches and decorative stone buildings. Several crew members took leave to visit nearby European C0l1DU'i99 and were left behind when Yorktown set sail early. A coordinating 8I'011P of officers and shore patrolmen were left behind and successfully returned ever . . . . y man to the ship via our C-1A or the lugh-line services of the fleet oiler USS Waccamaw. I-ICDLLAND