Continuing the sailor's 1939 cruise album, this page records the ship's passage through the Mediterranean Sea and port visits to the French Riviera towns of Villefranche-sur-Mer and Nice. Snapshots taken from the ship's fantail capture the wake and rigging underway, while crewmen pose beside the vessel's deck guns. Faded ink notes -- place names, a shipmate's initials, and a reference to a companion named Betty at Le Havre -- preserve the personal texture of a peacetime naval cruise along the French coast on the eve of World War II. Project: 218720