Sargassum

By Lieutenant (J.G.) Thomas N. Kelley, U. S. Coast Guard Reserve
September 1942
That there are two sides to a story is well illustrated by the sargassum and the sector of the North Atlantic to which it gives a name. On the one ...

Swinging Ship At Anchor

By Commander A. F. Converse, U. S. Navy
September 1942
Current operating schedules, and the necessarily severe limitations imposed upon the time and maneuvers permissible to ships in open waters, have made it increasingly difficult to accomplish compass compensation, radio-direction ...

Civilian Defense And The Navy

By Lieutenant Commander Preston S. Lincoln, U. S. Naval Reserve (Retired)
September 1942
Every shore activity of the Navy and every factory engaged on work upon naval contracts comes into constant and intimate contact with one or more phases of Civilian Defense. What ...

The Royal Canadian Navy

By Commander Lincoln Lothrop, U. S. Naval Reserve
September 1942
The Royal Canadian Navy today musters nearly twenty times the number of officers and ratings who were on active service at the beginning of the present war. So tremendous an ...

Machine Guns—Past, Present, And Future

By Harrison P. Martin, Quartermaster, 3c, U. S. Naval Reserve
September 1942
The weapon most characteristic of modem warfare is the machine gun. This is because the machine gun represents the acme of concentrated fire power, and hence is the ideal toward ...

Aviation Medicine

By Lieutenant Commander Christopher C. Shaw, (M.C.), U.S. Naval Reserve
September 1942
Military aviation today has become a formidable and essential form of artillery. The military airplane is mounted with one or more cannon and carries either bombs or depth charges whose ...

The Yangtze U.S. Gunboats

By Commander Louis J. Gulliver, U. S. Navy (Retired)
September 1942
According to newspaper reports, duly authorized for publication, finis may be written in gallant memoria for the last three of the original six Yangtze River gunboats, lost in action in ...

Barrington On The Leeward Station

By Richard S. West, Jr.
September 1942
The recent publication of The Barrington Papers , Volume II, 1 brings to light a tiny but interesting chapter in the naval history of the American Revolution: the chequered story ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

September 1942
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Book Reviews

September 1942
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Professional Notes

September 1942
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