Rowe (DD 564) - Naval Cruise Book

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M , ,.,, , THRU THE SEZ UA AL We had a fuel stop at Aden on 24 September . . . transited the Suez Canal 27-28 September .. . and that same day had a fuel stop at Port Said . . . no liberty but we saw the canal and the merchants that boarded and tried to board . . .

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LAND OF IVORY AND E LE PHANTS CEYLO Only a few of us es- caped without at least two ebony elephants and some ivory work. . . some visited the more pri- mitive interior. . . and we will remember Ceylon also . . . 'ez X

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U' 3' H view of Naples Naples was the port of call . . . but it only served of afooal point for all of us to spread out to all parts of sunny Italy . . . tours took us to Rome . . . Sorrento . . . Amalfi . . . Capri . . . Pompeii . . . and a hundred other places up and down the coast . . . It was a fast five days but five that made many of us secretly vow in our hearts that we would come again to Italy . . . and that the stay would be longer . . . the Blue Grotto ruins in Pompeii Isle de Capri