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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...
By Lieutenant Commander J. H. Skillman (S.C.), U. S. Navy
“. . . and there shall also be allowed one-half pint of distilled spirits per day, or in lieu thereof, one quart of beer per day to each ration. . .”—(Act of March 27, 1794.)
By Lieutenant Commander Melvin F. Talbot (S.C.), U. S. Navy
Unless renewed, the structure of limitations resulting from the London naval treaty will expire on December 31, 1936. This agreement, however, provides that a meeting of the signatory powers be held in 1935. It rests with this conference, so soon...
Introduction.—Almost forgotten now in these days of Anglo-Saxon and Japanese domination of the Pacific is that long before these peoples obtained a prominent place in the world's affairs there existed a trade across that ocean of which...
It is Quantico in early January, 1918. The other units of the Marine Brigade have already sailed for France to form a part of the 2d Division. The headquarters company and the second battalion of the 6th Regiment remain. Colonel Harry Lee...
In the June issue of the Readers' Digest there appeared an article "Wanted—Public Servants for Life," a digest of an article from the March issue of Fortune entitled "British Civil Service." This article...
British Memorial to the United States Navy in the World War
By Rear Admiral R. E. Bakenhus (C.E.C.), U. S. Navy
In Fort Hamilton Park in the city of Brooklyn, New York, facing the Narrows, there stands a rugged and beautiful granite memorial erected from funds subscribed in Great Britain as a tribute to the comradeship and service of the American Naval...
By Lieutenant Commander Leonard Doughty, Jr., U. S. Navy
In the World War, with its innumerable scientific advances in the technique of waging war, both on land and sea, it was natural that many unforeseen difficulties arose to complicate the operations. Among those at sea none was more harassing than...
By Lieutenant Harold D. Harris, U. S. Marine Corps
Success or failure in a naval campaign has numerous contributing factors, one of the most important of which may be the seizure, utilization, and defense of an advanced base in the theater of operations. Utilization and defense of a base must, of...
By Captain Frank Jansen, Head of Department of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, University of Southern California
Since the use of plotting sheets has become universal in solving the line of position problem both at sea and in the air, different inventions have been placed on the market, by the aid of which one is able to avoid carrying a full set of...
Prepared by Professor Allan Westcott, U. S. Naval Academy
From October 3 to November 3
FAR EASTERN PROBLEMS
Naval Talks Approach Deadlock.—Bilateral naval conversations preliminary to another naval conference in 1935 began in London in the last week of October, the...
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