Charles F Adams (DDG 2) - Naval Cruise Book

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UTLERDHHI, THE IIETHERLHIIDS ..... As we steamed briskly up the River Maas to Rotterdam through masses of ships, tugs, and barges of all descriptions, we could easily see why this was rated as the busiest port in Northern Europe, Tying up With, in walking. distance of the ultramodern center of this city of almost a million, we were facinated at the industrial achievements of modern Holland. No wooden shoes and windmills here! However, we were not to be disappointed in that either, as the Dutch Navy sponsored bus tours to Monnikendam and Volendam on the famed Zuyder Zee showed us old'Holland in all its colorful, fabled quaintness. NOW THIS IS THE HOUSE WHERE .... WHAT DO YOU MEAN, TOURIST TRAP I ,. . N. .fx V ,. WAIT FOR Us! HOVER THERE NEXT, VOLE E W' 7 7, NDAMII IICOME GO!!! ?

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Hlll UHHHL ..... Leaving Kiel, Adams transited the famous, sixty-mile-long Kiel Canal, going from the Baltic Sea into the North Sea. Cutting as it does through the rich countryside of the province of Schleswig-Holstein, this picturesque Waterway gave us a good sampling of typical German farmlands. The surrounding lowlands allowed an uninterrupted enjoyable view not often seen from ships. The old canal, built in,1895, bore few scars of modern industry to mar its pastoral beautywhich carried to the very water's edge. . f 1 A Q A HKIEL CANAL, HOLTENAU LOCKS DOWN PERISCOPEH

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Pomsmnum, enuuann ..... WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER HMS VERNON 9 LANDING LONDON, CHANGING THE GUARD imma YANKEE IN LONDON SNAP, SNAP Home and hearth beckon especially strongly to the British at Christmastimeg so when we moored at this great Royal Navy dockyard, most of our British counterparts were on holiday leave. Except for the few who shared home and hearth with Christmas-cheery hosts, most of us found our main diversion in England to be a great tour to London. The huge city, with all its world-famous attractions, awed us as it has millions be- fore us. The British, as we'd heard, put little stock in central heating, so returnees from the twenty-four hour trip mumbled superlatives from between blue lips!