Special Circumstances

By Lieutenant Raymond F. Farwell, U. S. Naval Reserve Assistant Professor of Transportation, University of Washington
November 1935
The phrase which forms the title of this article occurs in art. 27, international and inland rules, known as t the general prudential rule, in the corresponding pilot rule XI ...

The Prevention Of Caisson Disease

By Lieutenant Raymond A. Hansen, U. S. Navy
November 1935
Divers and caisson workers are subjected to conditions which are admittedly dangerous as long as various factors in the cause of caisson disease remain to be determined. Since the invention ...

Training Divers

By Lieutenant W. A. Gorry, U. S. Navy
November 1935
Prior to the establishment of the Deep Sea Diving School at the Washington Navy Yard in 1928, divers were trained by more or less hit or miss methods. Gunner’s mates ...

A New Track To The Orient

By Lieutenant Commander A. O. Lustie, U. S. Naval Reserve
November 1935
During the past nine years, while | regularly engaged in the transpacific passenger trade, in command of the steamers President McKinley and President Jefferson, it has come to my ...

Officers on Ships Of American Registry

By Commander Philip Seymour, U. S. Navy
November 1935
With the United States Merchant Marine at a low ebb and our over-seas commerce at a standstill many of the merchant ships registered in the United States are tied up ...

Wreck of the Royal Savage Recovered

By Robert G. Skerrett
November 1935
The wreck of the Royal Savage no longer lies on the bed of Lake Champlain, where for fully half a century it has lured the relic-hunter, the summer camper, and ...

"It's a Small World"

By Rear Admiral W. S. Crosley, U. S. Navy
November 1935
In June, 1898, during the Spanish-American War, quite late one night, an ensign in the United States Navy who was in command of a 500-ton blockading armed tug, stationed off ...

On Administration*

By Commander A. G. Zimermann, U. S. Navy
November 1935
He understood well, and as well perform’d when he undertooke it, the millitary art in all parts of it: he naturally lov’d the employment as it suited with his active ...

Our Brief Clash With Korea

By Lieutenant Commander Glenn Howell, U. S. Navy (Retired)
November 1935
Almost forgotten now in the hurry and press of our modem life and the rapidly changing events of our times is our brief conflict with Korea. The causes which lay ...

The Selection Business

By Lieutenant Winston Folk, U. S. Navy
November 1935
The title of this article is possibly a misnomer, for it deals with selection only from the standpoint of the “seven-year rule.” (By that we mean the system now in ...

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