Lowry (DD 770) - Naval Cruise Book

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il il .l l This was a return trip for the LUCKY LOWRY . Some eight years and two days before she had visited the island of Okinawa under slightly different circumstances. As mentioned in the history of the Lowry, it was here that she received the name of LUCKY . I? Upon reporting in Okinawa, we immediately began Anti-Submarine Warfare exercises. It was on one of these exercises that we were playing hide and seek with the sub USS CAIMAN. We made a run on the under- water boys and proceeded to plant a practice hedge-hog right in the super- structure of the sub. When the sub surfaced, they found it and kindly re- turned it to us where-upon we slapped an inscription and placedyit in the mess hall to be seen by. By all parties concerned, it was considered to have been quite a feat. Since the liberty in Okinawa presented practically nothing to talk about, we shall continue on to our next and more interesting stop. 1 TA I ' fu rw, I U ' , , I R Wx i l .41--

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IT'S SMOOTH SAILING FROM HERE We left Yokosuka on the 22nd day of June just in time to hit the edge of a hurricane that did quite a bit of damage to Japan when it finally got there. All the fury this hurricane would muster was absolutely useless because the LUCKY LOWRY had her nose pointed home and nothing short of dis- aster was about to slow her down. Our first stop on our Good-Will Cruise back home was in Singapore, Malaya. This was around a thousand miles from Japan and took us 6 days, 23 hours, and 28 minutes Cexcluding time changesb to get there. In Singapore we found that it was naturally hot due to being close to the equator. We also found that true to the stories told about it, it is one of the largest import-export spots in the world. In fact it was so busy and full of ships that we had a hard time squeezing our little tin cans inside the harbor. You could stand on deck and see ships from just about every part of the world either loading, unloading, or both operations at the same time. It was definitely a port of fascination and intrigue. Among the more outstanding sights in Singapore were the Tiger Balm Gardens. These gardens were built by a very wealthy industrialist who had quite an imagination as well as a lot of money. It was very elaborately set with everything from dragons to images of human beings. In trying to bring out his conception of life before, now, and after, it was in all a creation of marvelous beauty. . Another main stop was the Temple of Buddha. The temple in itself was not exceptionally large and was guarded at the door by two very ferocious looking tiger statues. However, once inside, you found that the image which the temple protected was anything but small. Sitting on a platform about five feet high, the image of Buddha towers some fifty feet over the heads of the people that come to worship or just to see. The statute is a very fine piece of Work and weighs more than several tons. No matter from which side you looked at it, it was a lot of statue. While in Singapore the Captain presented the local yacht club with one of our life-rings with our name and number on it. Let's hope that they can keep it in the club roomto look at and never have to use it. Since We were still a long way from home and grudgingly Cchucklel had to be on our wa at 0622 1 July 1952 we heaved in our hook and set ' yy a course to Colombo, Ceylon. - 43 -