Roanoke (CL 145) - Naval Cruise Book

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We celebrated the first anniversary of the Roanoke at sea, 4 April 1950, with a ham and turkey dinner, For dessert We had not only ice cream and pie made on board ship, but two gigantic birthday cakes each one five feet long, two feet Wide and Weighing sixty pounds each. The bakers, our salt Water Betty Crockersf' report that each cake took 180 eggs and 25 pounds of flour. The cooks and bakers did an outstanding job in preparing this birthday feast for 1450 men While tossing through the Medi- terranean. No appetites sulfered from this tossing, I you may be sure. ANNIVERSARY PARTY ,-5-Vs, Wl1ew! Look what we built ff fi -17 7 fi ff 12 1 I, 5 ' Zif f? W 755 , , T Ag , . '7 , a gf , f Q95 ,,'L l

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Natives pose for us alnring annual celebration in tlicir village ncar Athens Back to Athens, and this time we viewed with a great deal of awe and respect, the Good Friday and Easter observance. Arriving in Piraeus on Good Friday afternoon, we found everything closed up tight, and upon inquiry we learned that a general fast period was in effect from Maundy Thursday night until Easter Sunday morning. That night wg went to Constitution Square in Athens to view the Good Friday procession from the Cathedral, a pro- cession that commemorates the bearing of the body of Christ to the tomb. In all Greek Grthodox churches, a Good Friday evening service is held, followed by the procession through the streets at nine o'clock. The Cathedral procession was im' pressive because of its size and because of its quite evidently being a religious procession, not a parade. While thousands of people lined Constitution Square and the surrounding streets, every last one holding a lighted candle, components of all military and city organizations walked by to the slow cadence of two excellent bands. At the center of the procession, following the archbishop and other priests of the Cathedral, marched a band of pallbearers carrying on their shoulders a simple casket, and, as the casket passed by, hats were removed, heads were bowed and the sign of the Cross was made. Then Sliipls offccrs rest at Gu5's after wild has trip to Corinth 'Q vi 1244