Why A Sailor Thinks Like A Sailor

By Captain J. C. Wylie, U. S. Navy
August 1957
Every autumn there is a series of internal crises in the Navy Department, growing in intensity until finally the annual budget requests take shape. During the winter the Department of ...

The Beach Pounders*

By Malcolm F. Willoughby
August 1957
Among the many activities of the Coast Guard in World War II was the operation of a security force for the protection of our coasts and inland waterways. A Beach ...

Suez and the Indian Ocean*

By O. Edmund Clubb
August 1957
Vasco da Gama, after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, reached India in 1498. The Portuguese and the other white seafarers who followed them were able by superior mobility and ...

Signaling In English Marine Art

By Commander Hilary P. Mead, Royal Navy
August 1957
In the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich there are several examples of accurate delineation of signals, oddly enough rather the exception, as a great many other paintings are extremely defective ...

The Soviet Navy in World War II

By Jurg Meister
August 1957
As in most matters concerning the Soviet Union, detailed information on the Red Navy’s operations in World War II is difficult to obtain and even more difficult to verify. While ...

Mars, No Bettah Da Kine*

By Lieutenant Commander Andrew Serrell, U. S. Navy
August 1957
She has gone now; the roar of her four mighty engines no longer resound through the San Francisco night air as her throttles are “two-blocked” for take-off. People no longer ...

The "Clermont" And The Beginnings Of Steam

By Lieutenant (JG) James L. Degnan, Jr., U. S. Naval Reserve
August 1957
The one hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the steamboat will be celebrated on August 17. The incident which has prompted this celebration was the voyage of Robert Fulton’s Clermont ...

MSTS—The Navy’s Fourth Arm

By Louis R. Fiore
August 1957
The American Merchant Marine has been called the “fourth arm” of our national defense and, in time of war, it has risen magnificently to the task required of it. However ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

August 1957
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Book Reviews

August 1957
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Professional Notes

August 1957
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