Croaker (SS 246) - Naval Cruise Book

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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.

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J.!u.....s....1.a L f...On Saiuadad, the Ihced 06 August, we annived LH NapLeA, Italy gon a 7 dag vLALI...H Naples, The Napoli of song and story, is situated in the compartment of Campania, l35 miles southeast of Rome by rail. lt is the second largest port and the third largest city of Italy, and has a population of over l million. The city occupies one of the most magnificent sites in all of the Mediterranean. ln addition, its locale is one of scenic beauty and great historic interest. Nearby are Pompeii, Herculaneum, Mount Vesuvius, Paestum, Sorrento, Amalfi, Salerno and the Islands of Capri and Ischia. The Bay' of Naples dominated by Vesuvius is famous all over the world. Naples suffered great damage in the war, and the city and its people still show the effects. ROME, The Eternal City, is one of much interest and ancient Roman beauty. lt is ltaly's largest and one of the oldest cities in Europe. Here were seen the ancient wreckages and battered columns of the Roman Forum: The Arch of Septimus, the Temple of Saturn, the Sacred Way, the Colosseum and the Pantheon. Within Rome lies the Vatican City, the capital of world Catholicism. Of interest here were the Vatican Palace and the Basilica of St. Peter, the largest church in thewworld. CAPRI, better known as The lsle of Capri , is situated in the Bay of Naples. Emperors ,Augustus Caesar and' Tiberius lived here with Tiberius building a number of villas on the island. The famous and beautiful Blue Grotto is here. Today, Capri is a very famous and popular tourist resort. V MOUNTI' VESUVIUS u...Fnom NAPLES people took iouns to the sunnounding points 05 Lnienebt, which included ROME, POMPEIZ and :che Ibiiancib 05 CAPRI and ISCHIA... POMPEll, The Silent City, is a city 'of ruins that reveal an ancient, al- most unbelievable, way of life, which was cut off and preserved in stone by Vesuvius' first recorded eruption in 79 A.D. The Ruins of Pompeii are still in magnificient condition and manage to stimulate one's imagination to the days of the Roman Empire. I se, ' f .,s,.,x hyd, FE it... if n5+2g H .15