A Naval Training Policy and System

By Lieutenant James H. Reid, U. S. Navy
January 1903
HONORABLE MENTIONMOTTO: "Nunc Aut Nunguam."A number of most interesting articles on the training of men have appeared from time to time in the PROCEEDINGS OF THE NAVAL INSTITUTE; but, not ...

Size of Battleships for U. S. Navy

By Lieutenant Homer C. Poundstone, U. S. Navy
January 1903
I. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS.Next to the necessity for a continuous and continued yearly increase to the number of armored vessels for the fighting line of our navy, it is of prime ...

The Navigator's Prism

By Lieut.-Commander John B. Blish, U. S. Navy
January 1903
With the close of the last century there came about a most active period of telegraph cable laying in the Atlantic Ocean under the flags of the four great commercial ...

The Naval Torpedo Station

By Lieut. Robert W. Henderson, U. S. Navy
January 1903
In submitting this article on the Naval Torpedo Station, it is not my intention to deal with the full details of the several departments here, but to consider the station ...

Single Display Tactical Signals

By Lieut. H. C. Mustin, U. S. Navy
January 1903
Last October the writer of this submitted to the commander-in-chief of the North Atlantic fleet plans for a system by which all tactical signals may be made by a single ...

Discussion

January 1903
"THE SIGNAL QUESTION ONCE MORE." See No. 103.Lieutenant-Commander BRADLEY A. FISKE, U. S. Navy.—In reading the lecture of Lieutenant-Commander Niblack, published in the PROCEEDINGS for September, 1902, and the subsequent ...

Professional Notes

Prepared by Professor Philip R. Alger, U. S. Navy
January 1903
For convenience of reference these notes are arranged as follows:A. Notes on ships of war and on navies, under the head of the naval power referred to.B. Notes arranged under ...

Officers of the Institute

January 1903
President.Rear-Admiral H. C. TAYLOR, U. S. Navy Vice-President.Captain W. H. BROWNSON, U. S. Navy. Secretary and Treasurer.Professor P. R. ALGER, U. S. Navy. Board of Control.Commander ...

List of Prize Essays

January 1903
1879.Naval Education. Prize Essay, 1879. By Lieut.-Com. A. D. Brown, U.S.N.Naval Education. First Honorable Mention. By Lieut.-Com. C. F. Goodrich, U.S.N.Naval Education. Second Honorable Mention. By Commander A. T ...

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