The War's Benefits

By Midshipman F. F. Foster, U. S. Navy
July 1918
"Will any good, commensurate with the woe brought on the peoples of the earth by Prussian militarism, come out of the present war?" This is a question that cannot be ...
USS Memphis wrecked on the rocks at Santo Domingo

The Wreck of the U. S. S. "Memphis"

By Lieutenant Commander Thomas Withers, Jr., U. S. Navy
July 1918
On August 29, 1916, the armored cruiser Memphis was wrecked on the beach at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, by enormous, windless seas.

Floating the Storage Battery on the Line

By Lieutenant Lucius C. Dunn, U. S. Navy
July 1918
Although the practice of floating the storage battery on the line has been adopted commercially for a number of years and has registered a marked success in the storage battery ...

The Type "V" Azimuth Circle

By Lieutenant H. R. Greenlee, U. S. Navy
July 1918
The advent of the gyro-compass with its pelorus repeaters, made necessary the design of an instrument for use with the repeaters, that would fulfill all conditions to be met. The ...

International Notes: Naval War Notes

Prepared By Lieutenant W. B. Jupp, U. S. Navy
July 1918
STRATEGY SEA POWER'S INFLUENCE TO-DAY.—There are two inferences as to Germany's purpose in making her submarine raid on our merchant shipping off the Atlantic coast that at once suggest themselves ...

International Notes: Diplomatic Notes

Prepared By A. F. Westcott, Ph. D., Instructor, U. S. Naval Academy
July 1918
FROM MAY 18 TO JUNE 18GERMANY FURTHER PROOF OF GERMAN RESPONSIBILITY FOR a series of articles appearing in the World's Work and Land and Water, Mr. Henry Morgenthau ...

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