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SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The commandant of the Marine Corps hopes the Pentagon and Congress can find money for hurricane damage repairs at Camp Lejeune, N...
The Yangtze River is navigable for steam vessels for a distance of sixteen hundred miles from the sea. Hankow, six hundred miles inland, can at all seasons of the year take...
By Lieutenant Commander Glenn F. Howell, U. S. Navy
The Yangtze River is navigable for steam vessels for a distance of sixteen hundred miles from the sea. Hankow, six hundred miles inland, can at all seasons of the year take ocean going vessels. Ichang, three hundred and fifty...
THERE is no subject, with the possible exception of war and military affairs, about which the average man knows so little, yet thinks that he knows so much, about which there is so much muddled thinking and so many false ideas, as that of...
The preliminary disarmament discussions at Geneva in 1926 occasionally produced something extra good. “I see by the papers,” as Mr. Dooley says, that one of the best contributions to those discussions was made by...
The month of May, 1917, might well be called the month of awakening in the World War. For the month, of which this is now the tenth anniversary, saw the first dawning of the comprehension that the World War had changed into a new and...
WE ARE all more or less familiar with the general feeling about the use of chemicals in the World War, how people were stunned when Germany first used them in 1915.
By the Late Rear Admiral John C. Watson, U. S. Navy (Retired)
Editor's Note: This paper was read by Rear Admiral John C. Watson, U. S. Navy, to his comrades of The Loyal Legion at a meeting in 1916. It is considered to be one of special interest because the author was one of the last who...
The Hartford is one of the second- rate screw sloops authorized by the Act of Congress approved March 3, 1857. She is a wooden steamer of 2,790 tons displacement and 1,900 tons burthen, with the following dimensions: ...
THE word admiral is derived from the Arabic Amir al (“lord” or “chief of the”); Amir al-bahr, commander of the sea. The term seems to have been introduced into Europe during the Crusades, and to have been...
AMERICAN business men, farmers, miners and others interested in foreign markets, for the first time since the war, have acknowledged the imperative necessity of an American ocean-going merchant fleet, according to the consensus obtained by...
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THINKING that those who have seen the moving picture “Old Ironsides,” as well as those who have not seen it, would be interested in the operations of the good old ship in the Mediterranean,...
EDITOR’S NOTE.—It will be recalled that the Constitution, Captain Isaac Hull, found herself in the presence of a greatly superior British force shortly after daylight, July 17, 1812, off the Jersey coast, and, having an...