Lowry (DD 770) - Naval Cruise Book

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Home port, S.S. Santa Maria Get hot, WATERS Here comes the Lowry again!

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Anybody for a drink? ]B-A. I CELOrsT-A. After several days of some of the worst weather we had experienced in the Med., the Lowry steamed into the busy harbor of Barcelona. We would have ten days in Spain ' s second largest city and before we left, all would agree that it was the best liberty port in the Med. Up and down the Rambla, the stores stayed open until ten and then the nightclubs took over until four in the morning. We would shop till ten buying mantillas, castanets, and boots and then we would go to Panams, the Dancing Colon, or the Emporium until the end of liberty. On Sunday we went to the bullfights to watch the Novicero fight El Tore. We were sad when the time to leave came, but our sorrow was short lived when we heard that the Lowry would again stop in Barcelona in two months. The Lowry returns 18

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Liberty call L-A. SPEZI-A. Early December found us in a nest alongside the YELLOWSTONE in La Spezia, Italy. The days were spent mostly chasing down ship-to-shop items, standing in line at the YELLOWSTONE small stores, and trying to get jobs done before sailing. In the evenings, after a long boat-ride, Tigerites discovered a pleasant resort town, pretty much closed down for the winter. The wanderers took off for Florence, Pisa, and Venice, while the rest had Perroni and Pizza, or ate hot chestnuts and looked in store win- dows. A few hardy souls purchased marble ash- trays, lamps, and even table-tops, and then sweated the choppy ride back to the nest. The close of liberty usually found stragglers gathered in a paste- board bar down by Fleet Landing. Anybody got a slug for the juke-box? 11 was a long ride lo the Beach 20