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It is a generally recognized fact among officers of the Marine Corps, that a permanent company organization would be of the greatest benefit to the Corps, and is even considered ...

(Reprinted from the Annual Register, Vol. 18, 1775.)LONDON, Nov. 7, 1773.DEAR SIR: I thank you for the remarks of your learned friend at Carlisle. I had, when a youth, read ...

For a navigator who is out of connection with time-signals, the most simple and accurate method of regulating a chronometer is that of observing equal altitudes of the same celestial ...

Recently the writer on an occasion of duty found himself on a steamer bound from San Francisco to Coos Bay, Oregon. He made the acquaintance of the Captain, who extended ...

Having read in Muir's Navigation and Compass Deviations (1906), that the "New Navigation," or Marcq Saint-Hilaire's method of drawing a line of position, is "superior to all other methods for ...

I have had the idea for many years that ships could find the altitude of a heavenly body, when the horizon could not be seen, by taking the angle between ...

Referring to "Notes on the use of the Great Circle Sailing Chart for the Solution of Problems in Nautical Astronomy," published in No. 116 of the U. S. NAVAL INSTITUTE ...

(From Le Yacht and Le Moniteur de la Flotte)For these manceuver; the Mediterranean and Northern Squadrons were combined, Vice-Admiral Touchard, the commander-in- chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, being in supreme ...

The original and fundamental idea in the establishment of experimental basins, or, as they are otherwise called, "model tanks," was to assist in the determination of the resistance of ship-shaped ...

Guns are nowadays similar. That is, if a unit of length be one caliber and drawings be made of guns of varying calibers, the drawings of guns of all calibers ...

A MANUAL OF THE LATEST APPROVED MATERIAL, INCLUDING ITS USE, OPERATION, INSPECTION, CARE, AND MANAGEMENT, AND METHODS OF INSTALLATION ON BOARD SHIP.CHAPTER X. THE INSPECTION OF GENERATING SETS AND MOTORS ...

The Naval Profession (SEE No. 122.) Commander C.S. STANWORTH, U.S. Navy (retired). —I am glad to see that the suggestions of Captain B.A. Fiske in his article on "The Naval ...

SHIPS OF WAR, BUDGETS, AND PERSONNEL.AUSTRIA. VESSELS BUILDING.Name.Displacement.Where Building.Remarks.Battleships Erzherzog Ferdinand-Max10,600Trieste.Under trial.Ersatz Tegetthof.14,500--Projected.Ersatz Kr.-Rudolf.14,500--“Ersatz Kr.-Stephanie.14,500--“Scouts. Ersatz Zara.3,500--Projected. The Ferdinand-Max, in her preliminary speed trials, made 19.57 knots mean speed with ...

“The Campaign of Santiago de Cuba." By H. H. Sargent, U.S. Army. A.C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. 3 vols. $5.00Immediately after the Spanish War there came upon us a deluge ...

1879.Naval Education. Prize Essay, 1879. By Lieut.-Com. A. D. Brown, U.S.N.Naval Education. First Honorable Mention. By Lieut.-Com. C. F. Goodrich, U.S.N.Naval Education. Second Honorable Mention. By Commander A. T ...

NOTICE.The U. S. Naval Institute was established in 1873, having for its object the advancement of professional and scientific knowledge in the Navy. It now enters upon its thirty-fourth ...

President.Rear-Admiral CASPAR F. GOODRICH, U. S. Navy Vice-President.Captain C. J. BADGER, U. S. Navy. Secretary and Treasurer.Professor P. R. ALGER, U. S. Navy. Board of Control.Commander ...

NAVAL INSTITUTE PRIZE ESSAY, 1908.A prize of two hundred dollars, with a gold medal, and a life-membership in the Institute, is offered by the Naval Institute for the best essay ...