Columbus (CA 74) - Naval Cruise Book

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Turkish fishing boaTs IZIVIIR, T RKEY yn November I95O, we arrived aT Izmir, Turkey wiTh The ALBANY. The Tollowing morning we Tell in aT quarTers Tor inspecTion by Rear Admiral J. L. Holloway, Commander Cruiser Forces A+Ian+ic FleeT, and his parTy. ATTer personnel inspecTion, Admiral Holloway and his parTy inspecTed The upper decks. In Their opinion, The COLUMBUS and iTs crew was one oT The smarTesT ships in The TIeeT. As Tor Izmir iTseIT, There was Ii++Ie To see or do. There was a cerTain amounT oT local color , buT liTTIe else, de- spiTe The hisToricaI background oT The area. There was Ii++Ie recreaTion, and Tew bars or clubs, and prices were sky-high. Izmir Ialso know as Smyrnal is said To be The birThpIace oT The Tamous blind poeT, Homer. However, The oTher six ciTies ThaT claim The same honor would probably disagree. IT is one oT Turkey's maior seaporTs, and The home oT The 2nd largesT Army and Navy bases. MosT recen+Iy, Izmir was given To The Greeks aT The end of The IsT world war. buT was Taken over by Turkey in I922. The ciTy iTselT is beauTiTuI, and Those oT The crew who did go ashore had an enioyable Time Taking picTures and visiTing The various monumenTs. LiberTy in general was iusT whaT you made iT. I fwiffi, f, W Afzfgfy -T ,life-.g sex . if ' ' The old and The New T-irq

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Wonder whai if says? Hugh and mlghiy The Acropolis e Parfhenon Pireaus Time ou'l' for a picfure

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ISTANBUL 7he ciTy oT lsTanbul sTands on The souThern exTremiTy oT The Bosphorus, upon a hilly promonTory ThaT runs ouT Trom The European side oT The'STraiTs Toward The AsiaTic bank. lsTanbuI was TirsT known as The CiTy oT ByzanTine, and was Tounded by The Dorians in The year 660 B.C. When The Persians enTered Europe, The seTTlemenT Tell To Their arms, and was desTroyed. TT was rebuilT, and Tor a long period was in alliance wiTh AThens, reTaining iTs righT oT selT-governme-nT under Alexander The Great ConsTanTine renamed The ciTy ConsTanTinople in The year 330, and Trom ThaT day iT has been one OT The greaTesT ciTies oT The world. Due To guarrels oT various TacTions in The year 552, The ciTy was almosT desTroyed. In The years Tollowing. The ciTy suT- Tered severely Trom many civil and Toreign wars. The Avars, Persians, Arabs. and Bulgars all besieged The ciTy, and in The year 860, and again in l048, a Russian TleeT Torced iTs way Through The Bosphorus wiTh hosTile inTenT. ln The year I204 The LaTin Crusades Turned aside, and in alliance wiTh Venice, capTured The ciTy, sacked iT, desecraTecl iTs holy places, and creaTed ouT oT The empire, a LaTin EasTern Empire, and a number oT minor sTaTes. ln l453, ConsTanTinople Tell To The Turks under Mohammed The Conqueror, and was made The chieT ciTy OT a sTill greaTer OTToman Empire. IT remained as The capiTal unTil The TirsT quarTer oT The 20Th cenTury. In The year I924, The new Turkish Republic moved iTs capiTal Trom ConsTanTinople To Ankara, and oTTicially renamed The ciTy IsTanbul. WiTh respecT To iTs inTluence over The course oT human aTTairs,. lsTanbul is rivaled only by AThens, Rome, and Jerusalem, and is now The culTural and educaTional cenTer oT Turkey. There are a number oT places To see in lsTanbul, mosT oT Them grouped around The Aya Sophia, builT as a memorial To The wiTe oT ConsTanTine. WiThin easy walking disTance is The Blue Mosque, one oT The hundreds scaT- Tered ThroughouT IsTanbul. Then There is The old l-lippodrome, The ancienT meeTing place and sporTs arena, builT by ConsTanTine a cenTury and a halT ago. A shorT disTance Trom Aya Sophia is EgypTian Bazaar, an open markeT place which caTers mainly To The TourisT Trade who are willing To pay The exhorbiTanT prices asked. There are a number oT clubs scaTTered abouT The cenTer oT Town, buT The prices in general were high compared To oTher Med. porTs, and The recreaTion was limiTed. However some good bargains in Meerschaum pipes could be Tound aT a TracTion oT The cosT in America. The February Trip To lsTanbul was oTherwise peaceTul, excepT Tor The sinking The Blue MOSQ'-I0 oT T13 moTor launch. ln coming Trom The lib- erTy landing on The aTTernoon oT The l8Th. TT collided wiTh a Terry, and sank. Luck held and There were no casualTies, buT no one escaped a dunking, and a Tew men were . Taken To sick bay suTTering Trom exposure. PrompT acTion oT The ship's boaTs, and local naTive craTT is crediTed wiTh keeping The iniury aT a minimum. Tor The sTrong currenTs running Through The Bosphorus makes swimming almosT impossible. :Tim