Lowry (DD 770) - Naval Cruise Book

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THE SUEZ CANAL Arriving at the Southern entrance on the 22nd of July we dropped the anchor until 0900, at which time we were to start transit. At 0900 the USS LAFFEY led off with the LOWRY in second place, followed by the rest of DesDiv 261 and several merchant ships. Keep your eyes open boys, this is going to be worth seeing. Entering the canal we see on the left a beautiful stone monument built in the honor of the Australian soldiers who fought to protect the canal from the Turks way back when. Transit from this entrance is started be- tween 0700 and 0900, and between 1800 and 2000. It is started from the opposite end at 1200 and 2400. This makes the trafiic meet at a passing point approximately in the middle. Any vegetation to be found was on the East side due to irrigation from the Nile. The entire West side was nothing but sand, sand, and more sandg all of it looking as smooth as silk. Just before reaching the half way point at Lake Timsah, we passed another and more beautiful monument. This monument was raised in the honor of the Australian and New Zealand soldiers that had so gallantly de- fended the canal from the Turks in the First World War. The beauty of this monument came from the contrast in which it arose from the Hat lowly deserts reaching toward the sky. It's true beauty and magnificence can only be seen and not described. The wind, erosion is terrific and Egyptian natives are constantly kept busy moving the sand back from the canal by hand in small carts mounted on portable tracks. In the spots where nature oifered no help whatsoever, the sides are solid stone and concrete. Because of the immense length of the canal, it is dark as we are gliding up the passage and see lights dead ahead. This is Port Said. There was no liberty here because of the lack of time. Pulling out of Port Said the next morning we passed down a canal that passed right through this fabulous city. At the end of the channel is a statue of a frenchman named Ferdinand De Lessup. Beneath the statue is the lnscription HAPIRIRE TERRUM CENTIBUSH CTO open the world to peoplel. This 1S the man to whom we are indebted for the magnilicent engi- neering feat through which we just traveled. L 2. J- Q., iff' ld 'J J l l 1 l A .7414 if . , .3 'qu .u-.if 14' if 'Iggy' .13 s 1 v. ,N Um Lax' 14,4 'fi .Qi .J 5 53339.

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