Chilton (APA 38) - Naval Cruise Book

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With the outstanding structure oi tlie liuge cathedral as a landmarli the Cliilton, Rockwall and Cohb entered Palma hartjor. Pahiia, on Mallorca, the largest island of the Balearic group off the east coast of the mainland, was our first meeting with the spicy Spanish. Here was a port that was little known to most of us, but it was indeed one of our finest liberties. The attraction? The restful atmoshphere and the congeniality of the Spanish people that pervaded everywhere. Tliere were few peddlers, yet the souvenir shops were most ])li ntiful and appealing. And for us the night life on this growing resort island was as gay as a Spanish dancer. We got to know this i)orl well — for we liked it. PALMA DE MALLORCA

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-1 Thr LIliHA and W 1HTI-; MAKSII continued on to the Spanish mainland and Malaga. This was the second such visit to Spain since the recent agreement was concluded between that country and the United States for the use of bases there. Touring the city in picturesque horse cabs we discovered many quaint streets, squares, fountains and fragments of Moorish archi- tecture We saw and visited the Cathed- ral, whose imposing tower domin- ates the city, and strolled along the palm-lined plazas. Whil e we were there, or off on tours to Seville or Gibraltar, we were most impressed by the friend- liness of the people in this old and beautiful city on the slopes of Monte de Gibralfero.

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THE COBB The attack persnmicl Iransport (destroyer) f.S.S. VAI I ' EI B. COBB (APD— iOC) v;is Iniilt liy Hpthlchcm-Hiriiftiam, Inc., at ilingliam, Massachusetts and commissioned on April 25, ' .)V}. Tlic ship was fitted out at Charlestown Xavy Yard, Boston, and departed for Guan- tanamo l?ay, Cuba, on May 12, 19- ' i5. On completion of shal edown training- and a brief return to Norfolk, the ship sailed through the Panama Canal and the Pacific in June 1945. Underwater Demolition Team twenty-seven was embarked at Oceanside, California, in .August of 19 ' i5, soon to Ijc headed for the western Pacific, arriving Honshu, .lapan, on September ' i, 1945. During the Fall of 1945 the ship served in I he Magic ( ' arpet Fleet and. early in 194G, she returned lo the I ' niled Slates and was decommissioned at (ireiMi Cove Sjirings, Fla. After the outbreak of war in Korea, the WALTER B. COBB was taken from the molhball floel and [■ecommissinned on February 6, 1951. Atler sliakedown Irainimr on the I ' ,asl Coast the ship served five months wllli the Si.xlli Fleet m Itie Mediterranean. Since that time the COBH has had vari ius duties including several amphibious training exercises ciff the jrginia Capes and (he Caribbean Sea.