A group of tourists in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam. A tourist holding a movie camera. Tourists leave in a convertible car. Tourists walk up a rock stairway followed by natives carrying material in baskets on their shoulders. Turtles swimming in a turtle pond. View of the Buddhist temple in Saigon. Tourists at high altitude pose for the camera. The city of Saigon can be seen in the backdrop.
View of the Saigon harbor as taken onboard from a vessel sailing off the French Indo-China coast. Sailors stand at the bow the vessel. Several ships can be seen at a distance. A sampan passes by the vessel. Distant view of the port of Saigon.
Pedestrians and vehicular traffic on a street in Saigon,Vietnam. Golden spire of a temple can be seen in the background. Natives in ox-carts and cycle rickshaws. Pedestrians and vehicular traffic outside a tall building. Native sailors in their gondolas gather at an embankment. People at a race track watch a derby.Crowd in stands cheer as the horses gallop.
Scenes of busy harbor in Saigon,Vietnam as seen from the deck of a vessel. Large sampans underway in the harbor. Few natives in gondolas pass by. A large cargo ship( freighter) tied up to pier can be seen in the background of the sampans. Several other vessels underway at a distance.
Initiations rites commemorating sailors' first crossing of the equator( Shellback initiation) being held aboard the USS Marblehead CL-12 off the French Indo-China coast. U.S. Navy sailors dressed in aviator uniforms look through their binoculars standing at the bow of the cruiser. The shellbacks ( sailors who have crossed equator), many dressed in costumes, beat up the stripped pollywogs (sailor's who haven't crossed equator) with wet boards and ropes. Scenes of the stern section of the USS Marblehead. Pollywog sailors pushed into tank of water and black oil. Initiation rite being performed on the deck. Sailors pretend to cut a pollywog with a saw and then let him go as he moves through the initiation rites.
Distant mountain range and clouded skyline as seen from the deck of USS Marblehead CL-12 sailing off the French Indo-China coast. A U.S. Navy sailor dressed in a robe poses for camera .View of the stern of the cruiser.Several vessels underway at a distance.
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