Salem (CA 139) - Naval Cruise Book

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Gs if 4 , ggi APLE , ITALY napoli, home oT The Tamous MounT Vesuvius, was The iniTial sTop for i The SALEM on her TirsT cruise To The easTern secTor oT The MediTerranean, , ,x.u The giTy QT Naples, siTua+ed about one guarTer oT The way up The oT The Phlegraean Fields, direcTly opposiTe MounT Vesuvius. A is i iiiii ' i' :fQ. T i..Q 'K 'Nye -. ' i ' T IT was Tounded by Greelc colonisTs abouT Tive hundred years beTore lr .L Q Q Ea5Tern coasT oT lTaly, us spread ouT in a Tanwuse shape and lies aT The TooT s xggsc -3 Yxxk:-tvs 3 ,,-ra'-'E Nwmuha. . , Naples sfreef see .fn-N X The birTh oT ChrisT. Following The Tall oT The Roman Empire, Naples was successively dominaTed by The lcings oT France and Spain and The emper- ors OT Germany and AusTria unTil in l86O Garibaldi ca,pTured The ciTy .and placed iT under The sovereignTy of The Kingdom oT lTaly. Naples is an imporTanT ciTy Tor T e ix ee u I oT CinCNELM. From The OTTice oT Admiral Carney comes much oT The-worlc ThaT coordinaTes The rnovemenTs of h S Th Fl T 'n The MediTerranean, Tor here is siTuaTed The headquarferg NATO Torces operaTing in The MediTerranean area. For The sailor, Naples is a good liberTy porT. lT was here ThaT The SALEM men goT Their TirsT TasTe oT honesT- To-goodness lTalian spagheTTi and vino . The big cenTer oT acTiviTy was The EM club where a sailor, euTher sie- Tioned in Naples or Trom a visiTing ship, could Teel ThaT he was enloying an evening similar To one he would be enjoying if he were in The STaTes. The club had Tree Tood and reTreshmenTs and an ample number oT lTalian girls acTing as hosTesses. Many men Toolc one oT The roads ThaT' lead To Rome and enjoyed a Three day Tour oT ThaT ciTy. They were shown all The Tamous ruins oT The once prosperous early Romans, sighTs oT The modern ciTy, and had an audience wiTh Pope Pius Xll. OThers, noT able To leave The ship Tor such a long Time, visiTed Pompeii and The song-Tamous Isle out Capri. ShorTly aTTer leaving Naples, The SALEM sTeamed pasT The Bergman-Rossellini island oT STromboli. As if saluTing, STromboli gave The men a real show as iTVbelched black smolce Trom iTs craTer as a Temporary Tarewell gesTure To The SALEM. nfef tax' 'lem men e Four Sa D9 X 'W x Sxf' + K fmxh-S gg T x Fr' Fi , u, ,EQ gf T . M af Wg,-4,

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