Croaker (SS 246) - Naval Cruise Book

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..On 19 July '63 we highlined the DZVCOM 510m the SKYLARK... w ll hble heading gon ROTA,SPAIN ... LET'S SEE, SHOULD WE DUNK HIM? PERMISSION TO COME ABOARD SIR? SKYLARK MAKING AN APPROACH Welcome aboard to our new Division Commander, Commander S. T. Bussey, Com Sub Div 81. We hope he is enioy- ing his visit aboard the Croaker-Maru. On his arrival by high line transfer he remarked That was a fast ride .S The Captain replyed It's better that way.

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The Naval Babe at Rota in a joint TYlNG UP - ....On Taebdag, 30 July, we afuulved in ROTA,SPA1N, 50h oufr tufrnovea. we aellieved .Che USS THREADFIN 15311103.1112 uuxlt wan Ahofct and aneventgulig howeven, many a panched tongue :mfs quenched. Spanbsh-Amefuiean Bane cum which 6fl2!5 F QFXNCC fthe Slvanbsh 62:19. The U.S. han a 10 f S X' yeah lieazse on the babe, Aubjeet to ftwo LJSB0 ' J J P give yeah exzerusiom, bafsed on agnee- e X Q39 f menu by the Spanizsh and U.S.goveJ1nmenDs Q Z. X, in 1953. STARBOARD SIDE TO... ff ofpif ' X ' Between Seville and Cadiz, iust 20 miles from the U.S. Naval Station at Rota, lies Jerez De La Fron- tera, famed the world over for the type of wine it produces. In fact, the name of this wine, sherry, is a corruption of the above Jerez, it's place of origin, also known in ancient times as Xeres or Scheris. The harvest or vintage of the sherry grapes takes place about the first week in September and lasts a month. The grapes are pressed in huge, shallow, square, wooden troughs called lagas by men wearing leather pressing shoes with nail-studded soles to insure that pips and stalks do not get crushed with they grapes. The iuice is then run oft into great casks holding about 108 imperial gallons and trans- ported to the bodegas in Jerez where the grape iuice is fermented, classified, aged, and bottled.