Tactics And Command

By Lieutenant Commander M. F. Talbot (S. C.), U. S. Navy

January 1933

’Twas then great Marlborough's mighty soul was proved,That, in the shock of charging hosts unmoved,Amidst confusion, horror, and despair,Examined all the dreadful scenes of war;In peaceful thought the field of ...

The Principles Of The Gyrocompass

By Lieutenant Commander E. W. Wunch, Jr., U. S. Navy

January 1933

Inasmuch as the gyrocompass seems to be surrounded by mystery, and many people believe that its operation is difficult and understood only by the specialist, its principles are here described ...

Photographs

January 1933

Professional Notes

Compiled By Members Of The Editorial Staff

January 1933

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Book Reviews

January 1933

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Notes On International Affairs

Prepared By Professor Allan Westcott, U. S. Naval Academy

January 1933

From November 3 to December 3

Discussions

January 1933

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The Pathfinder Of The Seas

By Captain J. F. Hellweg, U. S. Navy

January 1933

On the afternoon of April 14, 1932, the Honorable Secretary of the p Navy accepted from Mrs. James Parmelee, the granddaughter of Lieutenant Maury, the handsome bronze bust of the ...

The Flying Lifeboat of the Coast Guard

By Colonel Harold C. Reisinger, U. S. Marine Corps

January 1933

The spring of this year witnessed he realization of a cherished ambition of the United States Coast Guard—the culmination of their effort to develop an aviation branch. Beginning in April ...

The "Expeditionary Corps" Of 1861

By the late Major Franklyn E. Town

January 1933

On the morning of November 7, 1861, on the coast of South Caro­lina, the sun appeared through a light veil of haze, announcing the dawn of a day which was ...

Earth's Rotational Force And Navigation

By Captain Gilbert T. Rude, Coast and Geodetic Survey

January 1933

Nature continually demonstrates that the combined or the prolonged action of minute forces is capable of exerting tremendous energy and of per­forming prodigious tasks. With its fel­lows, the tiny drop ...

The Suicide Squadron

By R. H. Gibson

January 1933

It is the task of the historian, confronted by a mass of material, to sift and select the relevant from the extraneous. And the Great War provided such a plethora ...

How We Got Our Navy

By Commander Holloway H. Frost, U. S. Navy

January 1933

During the American Revolution the Continental Congress built an American navy. Naturally such a force as we could then hastily organize had no chance to wrest the command of the ...

The Earliest Naval Operations

By Lieutenant Colonel J. M. Scammell, Militia Bureau

January 1933

Sea power was as potent a force from the earliest days of history as ever it has been since. The first use of organized naval forces on a large scale ...

Supervising Nicaraguan Elections, 1928

By Major Edwin North McClellan, U. S. Marine Corps

January 1933

Supervising Nicaraguan elections to provide free and fair elections is one of the many aids to American foreign policy used to insure that the area between the Rio Grande and ...

New Arrangement For "Nautical Almanac"

By Lieutenant (J. G.) William H. Gridley, U. S. Naval Reserve

January 1933

The increased speed of aircraft and surface vessels has had a decided influence on navigation methods during the past fifteen to twenty years. Spurred on by the new demands our ...

Prospects For 1933 In Europe*

By Frank H. Simonds

January 1933

The prospects for the New Year in Europe are threefold. In the year which is about to open the Old World is confronted by the possibilities of international conflict, domestic ...