Simplified Altitude And Azimuth Tables

By Lieutenant Commander C. E. Taylor, U. S. Navy
July 1935
One object of the navigation course at the Postgraduate School is to investigate devices for aids to, and methods of, navigation. After trying various methods of navigation, officers of my ...

A Proper Lookout

By Lieutenant Raymond F. Farwell, U. S. Naval Reserve Assistant Professor of Transportation, University of Washington
July 1935
In the naval service there is probably no rule of the road more conscientiously observed than the implied admonition of art. 29, international and inland rules, to keep a proper ...

Wardroom Of The U. S. S. Tuscaloosa

By Commander D. A. McElduff, U. S. Navy
July 1935
Upon reporting in Camden for duty- in connection with the building of the Tuscaloosa, I expected to find a great improvement in the appearance of the wardroom of this ...

Naval Co-Operation With Our Merchant Marine*

By Captain W. O. Spears, U. S. Navy
July 1935
General It appears to be the peculiar psychology of the American people that routine efforts to improve matters of Public interest are usually viewed with Hie greatest complacency. It seems ...

Some Unpublished History Of Old Glory

By Commander Lucius C. Dunn, U. S. Navy
July 1935
Beginning with that epochal day in late December, 1775, when Lieutenant John Paul Jones first unfurled the silken rattlesnake ensign—of “Don’t Tread on Me” fame—on the American man-of-war Alfred down ...

Duty In A Yangtze Gunboat

By Lieutenant R. C. Sutliff, U. S. Navy
July 1935
The ships which made up the Yangtze patrol in 1926 were a miscellaneous assortment, including two mine sweepers, two former Spanish gunboats, one of which had been on the bottom ...

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