Haynsworth (DD 700) - Naval Cruise Book

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...........-i .1-9... ...-.4 isransui.. TURKEY Istanbul was, without a doubt, the most interesting city the ship visited. It is a City of amazing contradictions Wham Christian churches merge with great Moslem Mosquesg where twisting oriental byways collide with hae modern boulevards. 1 9 Istanbul-where Europe and Asia meet. Situated on both sides of the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn , Constantinople fthe old namej is a city rich in history. lhe cradle of Byzantium culture, it was the capital of the Western Roman Empire. Passing from a modern Eluropesn into the Mosque of Su.liman', one is carried leach' to the rule of the Sultan for whom it was built. At that time the moslem world stretched from Lebanon to 'ifienna The well known bazaar, which houses sixteen thousand merchants, wa.s formerly the Sultans stable. Anchored in the Bosphorous, our liberty parties had ten minute run in the Whale boat-probably better 'Ernolring Lena . Un our way We passed four destroyers, part of the tremendous Wealth America has poured into Armaments for Turkey. ' We considered Istanbul one of our better liberty ports. Not only was it interesting but many recreational facilities were afforded us in a USO, a gymnasium, and numerous night clubs. . Many tours were offered in Istanbul and one of the most interesting places, that the majority of the crew risited, was the old walls pof Constantinople which included the prison. Soldiers of many countries were kept here or sentenced to death by beheading. The execution chamber was still intact. Here when a man wasbbeheaded his head fell into a deep Well which carried it outto the Sea of Marmara. Other tours took us to mosques ofoutstanding architecture. Accoustics were such that a noise would rebound many times from the Walls and domes before diminishing. m A tour in the Sultans Palace was Very interesting. ihe building was used as a palace until 1921, when Turkey became a republic and the palace became a museum. .ir The visit' to Turlcey was quite an experience for us. X-re will remember it as the high point of our trip. D

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I v 1 1 1 g ! I 5. gg it 1 1950 ou see everyone scurrying to either the mess hall or the - t 17 . ' , Ejzgerspvllxggf-Ztaigoigiey goigg? Why friend, they are all going to .the movies. i fan liiovies are swell moral boosters: when you are feeling down in the mouth Just go ' d f t our troubles for awhile. . y to tgiumgvag gslk wclffe we get the movies. Well, when in port we get them from a motjgn picture exchange ship, usually a tender. When at sea we transfer them among 0 .V .I they various ships with which we might be operating. I E- S Wh shows the movies? The movie operators may come frcm any division as lang o 33 they have gone to movie operators's school and are qualified to run tne machine. On our ship they are all electricians. In case you run into them sometime their names T 1 , L uis Bergeron, David Reynolds, and Louis Stellflug. - are gtziclthiniyttiley have done a swell job of keeping the ship happy. Thankis a lot fellows. MAIL CALL Il' you want to make a service man happy while he is away from home, all you need to do is write him a letter. When you can't talk or be with a person, a letter is the best way to send your feeling to him. When you are thousands of miles away from your friends and loved ones your heart leaps with joy when you receive a letter from them, and better still when a package is received it makes you feel good deep inside to know there is someone that loves you and has taken the pains to make up a cake, cookies, or candy. MAIL CALL is a welcome sound when a person has been away from home any length of time. Mail is a woonderful service, and by far the best morale builder on a ship. Our mail is carried by naval air transports and sometimes the service is surprisingly fast. On the other hand, due to a shortage of transport planes, our mail sometimes arrives a little late. Better late than never we always say, because without our sugar reports the best recreation program in the world couldn't keep our morale up. . I , All mail going overseas is flown to Port Lyautey, French Morocco, which serves as a fleet post office for ships operating in the Mediterranean area. The mail is sorted there and flown to the various portsthrough-out the Mediterranean wherever the ships are located. The average time for a letter to reach a port somewhere is the area is around ten days. Mail has been received in as few as five and as many as twenty-five days. 'From Suda Bay the ship went to Iraklion, Crete, located about fifty miles to the eastward, where the mail for ships anchored in Suda Bay was being flown in. We picked up the mail and upon our return, they I-IAYNSWORTH was met- and followed to its anchorage by motor launches from ships of the Sixth fleet. which were anxiously awaiting their mail. It was after our second mail run to Iraklion we rendezvous at Sea with the Sixth Fleet ShiDS and spent all of one day and half of another transfering mail at sea. It was lots of hard work, but good experience for our ship. ' We wish to thank all our friends and loved ones for the wonderful packages we received while we were at Naples, Italy. Each package carried with it a feeling of Christmas ,spirit and good cheer. The ship was soon covered with fruit cake, cookies, and fudge. Each package opened seemed to fill the air with just that much more good old Christmas feeling. I ' Our ship's post office is equipt to handle 'every thing from the sale of stamps and money orders to registered mail and parcel post but one of the biggest jobs in the post oifice is answering the question, When do we get mail? . A ship's basketball team was organized while we were in Dry Dock in Gibraltar with R.L. Benbow, YN3, acting as team captain and coach. Due to lack of practice and time to get organized, we lost our first game to the USS ROOSEVELT by a score of 62-31 Since then the team has shaped up much better and to date we have won six of the nine games that we have played. It is generally felt by each member of the team that we can go far in the coming DesLant tornament if given the opportunity. Following, are the names of the teams we have played and the scores. USS ROOSEVELT 62 TURKISH ARMY CISTANBULJ 63 Basket' RHODES GREECE COMMUNITY TEAM 28 b BRITISH ARMY CCYPRUSJ 30 HAYNSWORTH 31 HAYNSWORTH 89 HAYNSWORTH 44 HAYNSWORTH 58 Team BRITISH ARMY KCYPRUSJ 20 HAYNSWORTH 64 USS WALDRON 25 HAYNSWQRTH 31 USS CAMBRIA CMARINESJ 74 ITALIAN CIVILIAN POLICE CTRIESTED 29 U.S. ARMY MILITARY POLICE CTRIESTEJ 44 I-IAYNSWORTH 50 HAYNSWORTH 35 HAYNSWORTH 38 Team members are as follows: TODD, E-L-, SN sAi.UsKI WR SN 'LTJG BJ MILLER IQEEIEEYLS, A.R.,- ErsN LANG, B.W., ETSN LTJG RJ... STOEQKER MGC , .D., Rnsm LTJG R.L. s'roEcKER BENBOW, RL.. YN3 1 W' E-Cu SN ENS H.F. COLENDA . . .. 1 - , .il '1',..?s.2ir. .i'. .aR1f.-ffs if gg :-.':..-f' 4- i