Second Honorable Mention, 1916On one of the closing pages of the issues of the UNITED STATES NAVAL INSTITUTE PROCEEDINGS will be found the caption "Notice," and under it the ...

I am not a believer in "selection up.” Assuming that any such method adopted will bring the best officers to the top (a very doubtful assumption), certain inevitable results will ...

NAVAL PUBLICATIONSBOOK REVIEWS“First Aid in Emergencies.” By Eldridge L. Fliason, M. D. (J. B. Lippincott Co.)The question of first aid is always of vital importance, but it is more so ...

GENERAL ARRANGEMENT PAGEDiplomatic Notes...................................... 1001Naval Notes............................................. 1023Miscellaneous Notes ................................ 1046(Details of Land Operations are not included.)[Events of international significance will be briefly chronicled in large type. Notes and comments bearing ...

PROFESSIONAL NOTESPrepared by Lieutenant C. C. Gill, U. S. NavyGENERAL ARRANGEMENTNaval Powers:* Austria ..............................................* France................................................* Germany............................................* Great Britain.......................................* Holland..............................................* Italy ..................................................* Japan ................................................* Portugal ............................................* Russia ...............................................* Spain ................................................* United ...

U. S. NAVAL INSTITUTESECRETARY’S NOTESAnnual Dues - The annual dues for 1916 became payable on January 1, 1916. It is suggested that clues be paid in lump sums covering a ...

PARK BENJAMIN. —That is a good story which Mr. Morgan tells about the “Brood of the Constitution," but it has one small defect; he has mistaken the “Brood." The ...

Importance attaches to methods of finding the series of courses that are necessary to he steered in pursuing a great circle route, because the criterion of minimum duration of passage ...

The present stagnation in promotion is a standing menace to the efficiency of the navy; a menace steadily increasing until it will become insupportable. It behooves the navy itself and ...

The Lesson [i]The great military lesson of the present war is the lesson of munitions. The failure of treaty and fort, the increasing effectiveness of great gun and machine gun ...

ORIGIN OF U. S. SHIP PORTSMOUTH[1]In the year 1813, during the war with Great Britain, a French letter of marque arrived in the harbor of Boston Mass., from ...

[IMAGE: SENATOR OTWAY BURNS, Who Commanded the United States War Schooner Snap Dragon During Her Three Most Remarkable Cruises in the War of 1812-15 From the original painting now in ...

The majority of the gunboats in commission today arc rather ancient; their bulging sponsons and time-honored appearance give one a feeling of sympathy for those who must be aboard. There ...

In the January-February, 1916, number of the Naval Institute Proceedings Lieutenant Farley has published an article entitled “The Sea Going Officer and the War College.” In this article the author ...

Industrial establishments may be classified broadly under jobbing shops and manufacturing shops. In the former, absolutely identical jobs may not be repeated more than a few times in 12 months ...

Free translation by Lieutenant J. H. Klein, Jr., U. S. NavyI. The First Prize“All hands on the quarterdeck” was piped by the boatswain's mates throughout the ship. Soon the entire ...