President Truman's Vacation Cruise in the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays
August 20-29, 1948. (49 pages)
August 20-29, 1948. (49 pages)
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Summary: The President did not always go to Key West for a vacation. For this particular one, he took a cruise aboard the U. S. S. Williamsburg in the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays from August 20-29, 1948. The President spent most of his time aboard ship, fishing, swimming in the ocean waters, and lounging in the sun. He went on land on just a few occasions-once to attend church services at the U. S. Naval Academy chapel in Annapolis, another to stroll around the Naval Mine Depot at Yorktown, Virginia. On a more unusual note, a sudden case of appendicitis attacked one of the sailors aboard the escort ship the U. S. S. Lenore, and the President's doctor, Dr. Wallace Graham, performed his appendectomy aboard the Williamsburg. |
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