Is the Versatile Line Officer Obsolete?

By Captain W. D. Brinckloe, USN
June 1959
Born of the old British concept that the leadership inherent in breeding was the sole requisite for command, and firmly entrenched during the age of sail, our Navy’s principle of ...

Let's Change the Rules*

By Lieutenant John E. Wesler, USCG
June 1959
The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions of Vessels at Sea, along with the corresponding rules for preventing collisions on inland waters, are intended to do just what their names imply ...

The Role of the Navy In Cold War

By Captain Daniel J. Carrison, USN
June 1959
A few years ago the tangible effect of sea , power was limited to the sea, the sea- coast, and river banks within range of naval cannon, or to areas ...

Sino-Soviet Power In The West Pacific

By O. Edmund Clubb
June 1959
The Soviet Union has heretofore been regarded as a land power for whom the Pacific Ocean was relatively unimportant. But since V-J Day the USSR has been actively building up ...

A Snug Harbor for Naval Memorabilia

By Captain Scarritt Adams, USN
June 1959
One day, toward the end of the last century, housewreckers arrived at the corner of Locust and Ninth Streets in Philadelphia and began tearing down a part of the old ...

Lightships: Dimming Sentinels

By Lieutenant James L. Degnan, USNR
June 1959
In December, 1957, the Coast Guard’s Civil Engineering Section issued detailed Report No. 28, “The Technical and Economic Feasibility of Erecting Lighthouses in Deep Water.” Its target—lightships, biggest drain on ...

Pacific Missile Range

By Lieutenant Commander E. E. Mouton, USN
June 1959
On December 7, 1957, William Holaday, director of Guided Missiles for the Secretary of Defense, signed a memorandum which placed the U. S. Navy in the middle of the national ...

The Story of Coast Guard Aviation

By Lieutenant Colonel Robert H. Rankin, USMC, and Norman N. Rubin
June 1959
It all began some 43 years ago, back in 1915. Since that time Coast Guard aviation, although never great in numbers of personnel or equipment and constantly battling against odds ...

Comment and Discussion

June 1959
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Book Reviews

June 1959
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Professional Notes

By Captain Rosseter P. Maurice, USNR (Ret.), Gladwin Hill, John Bunker, Richard Witkin, Hanson W. Baldwin, Harry C. Kenney, James A. Fusca, Walter Sullivan
June 1959
Problems in Revising the Rules of the Road By Captain Rosseter P. Maurice, USNR (Ret.) The officially designated “International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea,” commonly referred to as the ...

Josiah Tattnall - Blood is Thicker than Water

By Associate Professor Robert M. Langdon, USNA
June 1959
Captain Josiah Tattnall, USN, was not the first man to assert that “blood is thicker than water,” but one hundred years ago this month he gave practical meaning to that ...

Double Martini

Contributed by Vice Admiral A. Stanton Merrill, USN (Ret.)
June 1959
At the suggestion of Rear Admiral Felix Stump, Commander Naval Air Technical Training Command, the Commander of the Eighth Naval District and his staff arrived in Memphis to inspect the ...

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