The Battle Fleet in February, 1908

February 1928
The Battle Fleet got underway from Possession Bay at daylight on February 1, and anchored off Punta Arenas about noon. Here Admiral Evans found the Chilean cruiser Chacabuco flying the ...

Washington's Visits to Colonial Annapolis

By Captain H. A. Baldridge, U. S. Navy
February 1928
Navy’s Interest in Washington AT TIMES the squalls are of gale strength; the winter’s night is thick with rain as each lightning flash reveals a storm tossed vessel being driven ...

Notes on the Dunsmore Paintings

By John Ward Dunsmore
February 1928
Paul Revere. (See page xxvi)—While Paul Revere rowed across the river from Boston to Charlestown, friends waited with his horse, hidden in the bushes. This picture shows him immediately after ...

Pilot Chart of the Upper Air

By Commander C. C. Baughman, U. S. Navy
February 1928
Editor’s Note: There has been published as a supplement to the Proceedings a copy of the new chart to which the reader may refer as he reads this article.Time and ...

The International Hydrographic Bureau, Monaco

By Rear Admiral A. P. Niblack, U. S. Navy (Retired), President of the Directing Committee
February 1928
At the International Maritime Conference, at St. Petersburg, in 1912, Mon. J. Renaud, Director of the Hydrographic Service of the French Navy, brought up the question of the calling of ...

Discussion

February 1928
A Suggested Base for the Scouting Fleet(See page 843, August, 1927, Proceedings.)Lieutenant Peyton Harrison, U. S. Navy.—The article “A Suggested Base for the Scouting Fleet” brings up a question which ...

Notes On International Affairs

Prepared By Professor Allan Westcott, U. S. Naval Academy
February 1928
FROM JANUARY 1 TO FEBRUARY 1PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCEOpening of Conference.—The evident purpose of the United States Government in preparing for the Sixth Pan-American Conference at Havana was to make ...

Book Reviews

February 1928
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