Critique Of American Collision Law

By Lieutenant Raymond F. Farwell, U. S. Naval Reserve Assistant Professor of Transportation in the University of Washington
September 1933
Notwithstanding the fact that the international rules for the prevention of collision at sea have been in effect since 1890, and the inland rules, with slight changes, since 1897, we ...
Fleet Problem IX

The Realism Of Sea Power

By Captain C. C. Gill, U. S. Navy
September 1933
In the last decade there has been evi­denced in the United States a drifting away from the realism of sea power. Certain heresies have arisen. We have heard said that ...

The Inland Navy Of Austria

By Fletcher Pratt
September 1933
Among the least-known and (except by the High Command of the Central Powers) least-appreciated se­ries of naval operations during the whole of the World War were the operations of the ...

What Future Guam?

By Captain Willis W. Bradley, Jr., U. S. Navy
September 1933
In Guam, the American eagle has spread its wings in an altruistic mood, interposing its might between that small homeland of a kindly people, called Chamorros, and the lust of ...

The Aircraft Bomb And The Naval Gun

By Lieutenant Commander Logan C. Ramsey, U. S. Navy
September 1933
From time to time during the past decade the value and essential char­acter of certain types of naval ves­sels have been seriously challenged before the court of public opinion. The ...

The Flow Of Strategic Intelligence

By Lieutenant Chester C. Wood, U. S. Navy
September 1933
Lord nelson sits at his cabin table, a huge chart of the Mediterranean spread before him. It is obvious that his overwrought nerves are very nearly at the breaking point ...

Bunau-Varilla, Protagonist of Panama

By Captain George J. B. Fisher, U. S. Army
September 1933
As our ship pushes steadily across the Isthmus of Panama, we are constantly enveloped by an atmosphere of achievement. It makes itself felt as we rise through the locks of ...
Midshipmen Quarters 1936

Thoughts on Leaving the Naval Service

By Midshipman William J. Van Meter, Jr., U. S. Navy
September 1933
In the summer of 1929 over 600 boys, or young men if you will, set out on as many paths, all of which converged on the United States Naval Academy ...

Airships—Or Not?

By Lieutenant Commander William Nelson (C. C.), U. S. Navy
September 1933
The recent accident to the U.S.S. Akron has again brought to the fore the most mooted aviation question—airships or not? Of course, there is no universal answer, and even if ...

Discussions

September 1933
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Book Reviews

September 1933
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Professional Notes

September 1933
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