Lewis Hancock (DD 675) - Naval Cruise Book

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15TH JUNE- 19TH JUNE 25TH JUNE- 27TH JUNE On 15 June we anchored in the Persian Gulf at Bahrain Island, a land of sandy wastes, camels, and that magic stuff, oil. We found that oil has a nasty habit of being found where there is little else attractive to man or beast. Bahrain meant more days of terrific heat, sand, and the familiar beer and softball liberty of the Mid-East. We finally got mail. Forty-one bags of it brought letters and care packages from loved ones back home. Some men went ashore to buy very fine tailor- made clothes or exotic handicrafts from India and the Far East while others went merely for the wonderful taste of the fresh fruit juices available there. On the way into the town of Manama, an eight mile drive through the desert, we saw men washing clothes on the river bank and drying them on the ground (the original laundromat). Mr. Sackett and his tour guides played host to some of the British school children who visited the ship, and the Wardroom expanded onto the fore- castle to have a party for their parents. Several men took the Babco Oil Company tour of its re- finery and afterwards were treated to a feast of oxtail and tea. On June 19th we departed Bah- rain temporarily for the mysterious port of Umm Said — mysterious to us and to most map makers.

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Anybody got a drink? Prince of Wales Pier. Outpost of Empire. New signalman striker? Local super market. The Crescent. jJ6 -£ 2«r X£$£P

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r Main street. Mail at last! Visit to Babeo Oil Company. You can cross now. No, no Jackson, its not for the Quarterdeck watch. Sea front road. 1 , j| n ■ ■ ■ •