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The 1954 Cruise Book represents a pictorial and historical record of the annua! Middle East cruise of the . . t(» ST. ST. feeHUfich Saif i Photoqraphs for this book were selected from oHicial Navy photographs and photos submitted by members of the crew This book was paid for with nominal contributions from those deslrinq the book, with generous help from the ship ' s Welfare and Recreation fund at no expense to the United States Government.
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Ship ' Hi ' tci ' i The Greenwich Bay was the tv enfy-fifth and last ship of her class. She was built and commissioned at the Lake Washington Naval Shipyard in early 1945. Upon com- pletion of her first shakedown cruise, the Japanese had signed an unconditional sur- render, so the Galloping Ghost weighed anchor and set sail for the Pacific, where her first duty was tending seaplanes, for which she was originally built. Upon com- pletion of a tour of playing mother hen to a roost of seaplanes, the GB headed west around China and India, through the Suez Canal and arrived at her new home port, Norfolk, Virginia, in July 1946. Since tha+ time the Greenwich Bay has been on a shuttle schedule of six months in the States for repairs, overhaul, exercises and readiness for war and the other six months enroute to and on station in the oil rich re- gion of the Persian Gulf via the Mediter- ranean Sea and the Suez Canal. Most of the time in the Persian Gulf is spent at anchor off shore from Jufair British Naval Base, on Bahrian Island and serving as Flag- ship for an Admiral assigned as Command- er Middle East Force. While in the Gulf the GB hits many obscure islands and picturesque cities deep in tradition and Arabic culture. Each year the ship makes extended cruises outside the Gulf to Bom- bay, India; Karachi, Pakistan and Colombo and Trincomalee, Ceylon. This year we
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