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A Navy guided-missile destroyer is operating in the Black Sea after entering the region earlier on Tuesday. USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) is scheduled to...
In view of the increasing number of small, scout airplanes and the evident necessity for more accurate aërial navigation, it seems opportune to explain the problems confronting the naval aviator and his efforts to navigate this type successfully...
History does not definitely record the origin of the naval uniforms, _ but Mr. Locker, an early commissioner of the English Greenwich Hospital, is the authority for the statement that as early as 1603 King James ordered his principal masters of...
By Rear Admiral S. S. Robison, U. S. Navy (Retired)
About the end of September, 1770, a British sloop-of-war, the Favorite, 16, arrived at Portsmouth, England, from the Falkland Islands. Her captain related that in June of that year his ship and the British settlement at Port Egmont had been...
By Lieutenant Commander Terry B. Thompson, U. S. Navy
Have we, through too close association, lost sight of the truly remarkable educational achievements of the Navy? Has familiarity made us forget that the profession of arms, travel, a sea-faring life are and always have been held to be per se a...
At the time I commenced writing this this article I was reading A World Can End, by Skariatina. Much of that book is a copy of the diary kept by the authoress and covers a period during which I also kept a diary, and I also was in Russia during...
Navy Needs—Extracts From a Speech by Congressman Vinson
IT IS EVIDENT that a nation that requires a naval force requires one adequate to function efficiently in the hour of need. The efficiency of the Navy must not be based upon the fluctuation of the stock and commodity markets. A country does not...
Members of the Institute may save money by ordering books through its Book Department, which will supply any obtainable book. A discount of 10 per cent is allowed on books published by the Institute, and 5...
By Lieutenant Commander Schuyler Mills, U. S. Navy
From February 15 to 24 the conference continued to hear the proposals for disarmament made by the leading delegate of each country. China requested limitation to a figure based on territory and population and asked for “moral”...