Columbus (CA 74) - Naval Cruise Book

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LI B0 , PORT GAL lisbon The capiTal and largesT ciTy oT PorTugal is siTuaTed magniTicenTly on The norTh bank oT The Tagus River. Few porTs are more beauTiTul as you approach Trom The sea. The cenTer oT acTiviTy in Lisbon iTselT is The ROSSIOJ a greaT cenTral square unTil The l8Th cenTury The scene oT pub- lic execuTions. bull TighTs and all sorTs oT acTiviTy. Today iT is crowded wiTh all kinds oT TraT- Tic, noisy, brighT, animaTed. The wesT side is lined wiTh caTes. You can geT a good view oT The casual liTe oT The ciTy Trom This vanTage poinT. During our Time in Lisbon, sighTseeing Tours were con- ducTed daily To FaTima and Lisbon and environs and many oT The ship's company availed Themselves of Them. These Tours included The Jardin Boranico which is an excellenT example oT a garden-park: iT.will be oT inTeresT chieTlv To Those who care Tor sub-Tropical Tlowers and planTs. The Museum de ArTe AnTiga is a small museum wiTh a good collecTion OT painTings and gold and silver plaTe. The mosT popular oT The Tours was The one To The small vil- lage oT FaTima, where The Blessed Virgin had appeared on Three diTTerenT occasions To Three PorTuguese shepherd children. Those who made The Tour saw The place where The Virgin had appeared and also The beauTiTul church which The blessed Virgin requesTed be builT. IT is now nearing compleTion. AnoTher rnusT on everyones lisT was The bull-TighT which was held on Sunday, Sepjrember 23 in honor oT The U. S. Navy. WiTh iTs pageanT oT color and some oT The besT bull- TighTers Trom Spain and PorTugal iT provided us wiTh one oT The mosT exciTing evenTs we have seen while on This cruise. The souvenir hunTers were ouT as usual and came back wiTh such arTicles as gold and silver plaTed lighTers, Swiss waTches, pure sillc, pure gold. silver, Tilligree. hammered cop- per. corlc ice buclneTs and oTher cork novelTies. Local handi- craTT, Madeira and local embroidery or linen and coTTon. Bargaining was in eTTecT excepT in The principal down- Town shops. ,,

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HTHVIEW RD BOUN While we were in LaSpezia, lTaly The sewing machine in The BunTing Repair Locker sTarTed whirling and The job order Tor oreaTing a homeward bound pennanT was begun. The man behind The machine was John A. ivlclvlahon, QMS2, USNR, who had received The go ahead signal Trom Ensigns McCain and ST. Germaine. The use oT The homeward bound pennanT is TradiTional. A vessel which has been on duTy in Toreign waTers ouTside The conTinenTal limiTs oT The UniTed STaTes conTinuously Tor a period oT one year or more Tlies The home- ward bound pennanT upon geTTing underway To proceed To a porT in The UniTed STaTes, The overall lengTh oT The pennanT is normally one TooT Tor each oTFicer and man who have been on duTy ouTside The UniTed STaTes in excess oT one year. Our pennanT is 520 TeeT long wiTh one sTar in The blue Tield .indicaTing The Time ouTsicle The U. S. A. This blue porTion conTaining The sTar will be presenTed To The Commanding OTFicer upon arrival in The UniTed STaTes and The remainder will be divided equally among The officers and men of The ship's company. Much inTeresT was creaTed in leaving Lisbon when The pennanT was unfurled To The blue skies and genTle breezes assisTed by five helium filled balloons. The sl'iuTTer-bugs were ouT in Tull Torce. Rigging The Homeward Bound pennanf on The fanTail K I