Colonial (LSD 18) - Naval Cruise Book

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IN RETROSPECT BY SN SATRE WE LEFT NOVEMBER FIRST TO SAIL ACROSS THE SEA, TO CARRY LIFTS AND VISIT PORTS WHERE FUN AWAITED YOU AND ME. AND THIS BEGAN ANOTHER CRUISE FOR LSD EIGHTEEN, AND LIVING UP TO OUR MOTTO THE CREW OF HER HAD SEEN. ON DECEMBER FOURTH THE PACVS LEFT AND WE WERE ON OUR WAY, TO SAMPLE THE PHILIPPINE WAY AS SEEN IN SUBIC BAY. THE SECOND TIME WE HIT VUNG TAU WE STOPPED TO PAUSE AND PRAY, FOR AFTER OPERATIONS WE OBSERVED OUR CHRISTMAS DAY. AS ' 67 CLOSED OUT STRONG AND SANG OF AULD LANG SYNE, TWAS ANOTHER STOP AT SUBIC BAY AS THIS WAS JUST FINE. TO START THE NEW YEAR OFF RIGHT ITS TIME TO HAVE SOME FUN, THIS WE DID FOR SEVEN DAYS WHEN WE VISITED KAOHSIUNG. THEN BACK TO WORK COLONIAL WENT TO UNDERGO A TEST, TOWARD MONTH ' S END WE FLY THE FLAG VUN G TAU — DANANG EXPRESS . ON THE THIRTY-FIRST COLONIAL IS NORTH IN HAPPY LAND, TO SAMPLE SOME WELL EARNED LIBERTY IN YOKOSUKA, JAPAN. FOR FEBRUARY COLONIAL WAS ALWAYS ON THE GO, TOUCHING UPON SOME NEW PORTS; OKINAWA AND SASEBO. BUT THAT ' S NOT ALL WE VISITED WHILE CONTINUING ON OUR WAY, TO SHOW OUR COLORS FOR A BRIEF WHILE IN VIET NAM ' S CAM RAHN BAY. THE TWENTY-NINTH FROM WORKING OUR BROWS FROM SWEAT WE WIPE, THE DREDGE WAS NOT THE PROBLEM — TWAS ALL THAT LOVELY PIPE. TO STRETCH OUR PROBLEM ON INTO MARCH EVERYONE ON DECK WAS GRUFF, FOR IT TOOK NOT ONE BUT TWO ATTEMPTS TO OFF LOAD THIS STUFF. SO WE HEAD BACK TO OLD VUNG TAU FOR OVERNIGHT, NEXT MORNING UP THE RIVER FOR OUR FIRST IN-COUNTRY SIGHT 86