Salem (CA 139) - Naval Cruise Book

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GRAN, ALGERI 70haT was missed in The one clay visiT To Algiers was Tound in abundance in Oran, Algeria. The Oran of Today is a large and Tlourishing porT ciTy of 300.000 populaTion. lT has elemenTs of The modernism and advancemenT Tound in The STaTes mixed wiTh The naTive Touch of civilizaTion and The sTrains oT Far EasTern culTure. Two of The mosT inTeresTing sighTs were The visiTs To The headquarTers oT The French Foreign Legion in Sidi Bel Abbes and The ancienT Arab ciTy oT Tlemcen. Members oT The Legion showed The sailors Through Their headquarTers and museum. In Tlemcen They received a TirsT hand view of a real Arab ciTy. T'lisTorically, Oran was The obiecT of many biTTer baTTles beTween The Spanish, Arabs, and lvlohammedans. The French Army Took Tormal possession oT The porT in I83l and con- Trol iT To This day. rl X French Legionnaires on firing range fa- xx., L 17, so L ,f-7911! 1' . i cy' t Z I N Lats. ii jg. I K . S l if ' Q ' '13 - il7 A i I S . Tilly 'Sig I A' ll: ' -- 5 A A ,.-- v. '-, 4 .' -It L A monumenf To war heroes USS HALE 81 USS ABBOT Tied up near the SALEM in Oran

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Une Thousand Tour hundred and eighf TeeT above The level OT The sea rises The Rock of TAR B.C.C. ff! wiis'g! Gibralhar, second porT visiTed by The SALEM on This cruise. SiTuaTed aT The mosT souThern poinT of The lberian Peninsula, and gonnegfed To +I-,e mainland oT Spain by a one and one half mile long sandy sTrip oT land, GibralTar sTands guard over one oT The Two enTrances To The MediTerranean Sea. A BriTish possession since l7I3, GibralTar serves as a maior porT in The lvlediTer- ranean area Tor The The Rock Ships of forces as seen from The Spanish side. From The naval base, sTeep ramps and nar- row sTreeTs lead Through The SouTh PorT gaTe inTo Town. PopulaTed by more Than l5.000 people, The limiTed space occupied by The Town gives visiTors a Teeling oT being overly cramped in. Numerous shops doT The sTreeTs and evening enTerTainmenT is limiTed To a few nighT spoTs Tea- Ttrring Spanish singers and dancers. While in GibralTar, some of The crew mem- bers Toolc a Tour To Spain and oThers visiTed The Thousands oT honeycombed Tunnels oT The rock ,,- 5 A 1. X' iTselT. A T When all The uniTs oT The SixTh FleeT had arrived in GibralTar, The newly Tormed TighTingi Torces oT The SixTh FleeT sTeamed inTo The Med- iTerranean Tor Their TirsT big exercise period. Souvenir hunTers wg, T -, NJ' ' x as I T ofa Oran 234 ml- 1' g ,, A ii f' v 0 I. me ' , is, .TF Q 4 i QC? 1 . f' 712' f ll ' f ' 5 G 2 nl . i ' K f T 9 fi ' T T' i T i our PM Y SiOps for lunch durin ' T q a Tour To Spain. 4,31 ' . f' ' f ' 5, ,M V P Q95 WA ,ix -'N 'A

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CAGLIARI, SARDI IA 6-will-iri, f1hieT Town oT The province oT Carales and The fapilal ol Sardinia, was The hosT ciTy To The SALEM when she 1elebraTed her Third birThday, May l4. The hisTory oT Cagliari goes baclc To The year 485 AD. when The Vandals Trom ATrica conquered The island. lT has been besieged, capTured, Treed and exchanged by iTs rulers lor oTher island possessions. lT was bombarded by The French FleeT in l793, buT Napoleon's aTTempTs To Talce iT Tailed. Many oT The buildings in The ciTy sTiIl carry The scars oT bombings suTTered during The Second World War. Some are being rebuilT, buT oThers are being leTT as They are, sorT oT a monumenT To The desTruc+ive powers oT war. During The visiT, The Town was in The midsT oT a heaTed elecTion campaign beTween The CommunisTic and ChrisTian DemocraTic parTies, The sailors were given a TirsT hand view of The meThods OT campaigning used by a counTry oTher Than Their own. 4477231 Overlooking The Town and harbor of Ca9lla i Town Sq uare