Canberra (CAG 2) - Naval Cruise Book

 - Class of 1960

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'Y' ' in ' 47' ' V' ' .N ' Y ' ' 'V ' ' - V ' '-'+ f ' xii:-T 1, 1. ,-,. J 91 T-5?-' -.. . '-' v 'I ,,- ,,, ,.v- .. , Y .. FIRST FURT- uamtamafmo Cgag By mid March CANBERRA was in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Liberty for half the ship . . . the White Hat Club . . . Havana cigars . . . tennis or basketball . . . no trouble with the Castro regime-yet . refueling and some stores . . . and on to the Panama Canal. Hello to sunny skies. A popular home away from home! Il

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Wray 1 V5-'ffy-'Q-ktiezig ',,-:egg-'f'.: pi H f fr' f f 1 Snow and sleet, becoming eventually a cold, cold drizzle was the inauspicious background for our departure. Wives and sweethearts scattered along vast Pier 12, a sad goodbye, the image of eight long months away from home- bleak parting thoughts on Wednesday, March 3rd, Alone, CANBERRA steamed out of the harbor. The CRULANT Band struck up California Here We Come , and our minds were turned a small degree away from Norfolk and our homes. The Atlantic bore more ill will with some of the worst weather the ship had seen in quite some time. We rolled twenty two degrees at times and it seemed twice that, for those of us who still did not have our sea-legs after two months in the yards, it was hurry-up or pay the price. Not exactly a pleasant start, looking back, but we were beginning to look ahead . . . s MARC:-1 1960 Jlmclionb Jlweiglm



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S.. s s I l 5 , 1 Ahh . . . That feels good. CANBERRA showers down under Atomic water wash down system in Gatun Lake, Panama. iy Terriers train skyward as CANBERRA is raised 85 ft. in Gatun Lakes. TH RCU 6 l'l TH E Cpamama Ccma!2 The transit of the Panama Canal was the first of two fascinating trips overland', through artificial seas. A monument to man's skill and persistence, the canal cuts through hot humid country, some dense with undergrowth. First a lift of some twenty live feet by means of the Gatun Locks from the Atlantic to the Gatun Lake . . . Past the Guillard Cut in the continental divide to Mirallores Locks . . . then into Miraflores Lake and on to the Pacic Ocean.

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