Knapp (DD 653) - Naval Cruise Book

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Fax and Foibles On our travels these past seven months, we have we have acciunulated some very interesting vital sta- tistics The most obvious of course, the distapce T . covered, which is better than 50,000 miles. Q 118, of course does not include Liberty boats. During this extensive travel, the KNAPP burned 2,289,69 gallons of fuel oil at an average cost of 3.06 per allon Qand also paid for 600 gal ons to water- proo? the mess hallj for a total cost of S143,4l4.04. Water consumption, although we seemed to lack fresh water several times, hit an astounding lugh of 1,489,107 allons Qthis iigure does, however, include that which we received in Aden - which wasnt worth countin This amount of water could fill a swimming pool with dimensions of 10 ft. X 30 ft. X 620 ft. fClean livers We! l 1 I Running true to form, that KNAPPIANS don't scare easy and the cigarette companies are happy for it, each man on the KNAPP smoked 30 cigarettes each day of the Cruise for a grand total of 1,750,000 consumed. QA few for Babysanj. The cost of these cigarettes, bought through Ship's Store would be 37,875 18.90 per cartonj. Food was a problem as always it is worthy to note that we devoured 875,000 worth of provisions. We are still looking for an anemic individual on the ship. For future- revolle-ctions when . ,. . . n 0 it m ' mi lla-tm-rl Livilians , we not onl glrgtofyuflwllllie also Ya-n, liupt-s, Shillings, Lira lzlesatas ang mi 5111 WA'I'lili W and we were on most of Esiudm VVorld as follows: Atlantic Ocean Caribblt 1111116 lhwilic' Ur-4-an, Sw! of ja gm, East hhina S6311 Sei China Sea, llay of Bengali Arabian Sea, Pe,-ga, South Gulf ol' Adi-ii, H4-d Sq-a, and the Mediterrangn Gull VVQ' vrossi-rl thi- International Date line ggdsgg lirpiator and passed ovcr some of the Worldzs dee watt-rs, in-tu-r than 6 miles deep in several lacegei tht- Pacific-, and of course we saw three of thdJW0r1fii mort- famous mountains, Fujiyama, Aetna, and Vesui vius. VW' also had the opportunity to transit many famous Straits and Narrows: Panama Canal, Shim noscki Straits, Tsushima Straits, Malacca Straits Suez Canal, Straits of lionifacio, and the Straits of Gibraltar. We do hope that this travelogue has not been too boring, it may seem very unrelated, but our thc-mc in t iis article is for your future stimulationin remembering your World Cruise of '53 and '54 and the many places we all have seen. We hope thatthis may help to serve your memory in years to come. 1 A !1, Al. I , A uk- , . W , r , i p p ' i C0696 time S il '-S' arf' flu' r'ru:.ic'sl people

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l QF ,l Q arf Q Q 1, s lil X El .- '.x, s we t gig NS ,Ea ,. ,f tx 5 Szsiba... f Panama Canal Canal Zone - A strip of territory 10 miles Wide across PANAMA, granted to the U. S. in perpetuity by the Republic o PANAMA in 1904. The govern- ment of the Canal Zone is vested in the United States. The canal has six pair of locks each 100 feet in width. The actual length of the canal is 403 'l . m1 es including Gotum Lake. The Atlantic entrance is 27 'l W m1 es est of Paciiic entrance. The operation of the locks and iron mules were an interest to all. Pic- tures were also taken of the foliage and hills en- compassing the canal. Panama City Panama City has a population of 111,893 and is the cross roads of the wo ld h r W ere Ea t t , Merchandise from all S mee S West chased her ' Th over the world may be u P T' activilz' 6 e streets are constantly thronged with I T e city of old PANAMA lies in ruin d t th F lllploitfdof hHemy Morgan Pfivaiir-0 F 0? . ur er ral s t ' f PAN - ' inland. The church fe City O AMA was lebullt o th G l ' me worth seein e o den Altar IS another sheets of gold- g. The altar is actually covered with