Vulcan (AR 5) - Naval Cruise Book

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MED CRUISE 1989 “I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.” Oliver Wendell Holmes “Bon Voyage! relatives and friends wave to loved ones who are about to embark on a six-month Mediterranean deployment. 12 C. Departure

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and merchant ships anchored in the harbor. Photograph taken from USS Yorktown (CV-10). Planes on deck include SB2C and TBF tvpes. History USS VULCAN (AR-5) departing the Naval Station Norfolk. Virginia for the Mediterranean Sea on 22 June 1943. Note the tugs assisting her and the old ‘four-piper' destroyers

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LEFT — Like parent birds, tug boats help guide the auxiliary repair ship from her nest. BOTTOM — Some sorrowful faces of Family members as they watch Vulcan and her crew start their track across the Atlantic. BOTTOM — Even in the chill of winter loved ones watch as the Vulcan’s view gets smaller and smaller. RIGHT — Vulcan sails out of her harbor, of Norfolk, Va. bound for the Mediterranean Sea. Departure