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The Coast Guard’s long-sought heavy icebreaker, the Polar Security Cutter, was among the programs to receive funding when Congress passed a spending...
How many times has this phrase meant the realization of our fondest hopes or bitter disappointment? Whether it is the one or the other, we must all at some time have wondered what goes on within the portals of the Detail Office. It is therefore...
Load-Line Legislation Affecting American Merchant Vessels
By S. B. Crosby, Senior Engineer, Bureau of Construction and Repair
EFFORTS have been made from time to time, over a period of years, to pass legislation through Congress that would determine the maximum permissible draft or Plimsoll line to which American seagoing merchant vessels could be loaded. The principal...
RECENT publicity concerning the Naval Reserve* indicates a gratifying interest on the part of the regular service. It is believed that the following brief description of an ideal Naval Reserve armory should interest other reserve units and those...
Compiled By Lieutenant Commander D. B. Beary, U. S. Navy Lieutenant Commander D. C. Ramsey, U. S. Navy And Professor Henry Bluestone, U. S. Naval Academy
January 2 to February 1
UNITED STATES
Aids to Safety In Submarine Work
Baltimore Sun, Jan. 12.—The U.S.S. S-22 has just completed a thorough overhaul lasting four and a half months in the navy yard at Portsmouth, N.H....
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