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Show "Tin Lizzies" of -American Navy Are Wonderful Little Vessels ABOARD V. S. BOAT NO. 3 IN" WHlTi: SEA, July "0. (Correspondence (Cor-respondence ot tl:e Associated Press. American casrlc boats now are operating on d .s patch sen ice in North Russian w a ters. Kagle Hoata Nor. I. " and 3. the first built of this typo for the American government, gov-ernment, arrived In Archangel after a 6200-mile run under their own steam from the Atlantic seaboard, and, according to their officers, have more than "made good." Crews of the larger naval easels are inclined to chaff the eagie b-t men and call these craft tho "tin l;..zics" of the navy, but the officers of th cap'es are proud oi" their seaworthiness and cf.i-clency. cf.i-clency. The Associated Press corresponcent c.as ju; made a trip frcri A"ehani:cl to i'';n. acres' the White sea. aboard the flagship flag-ship of the little fiotilla. tnl in th's sixteen six-teen -hour run. in stormy w eat he-, the flagship and the No. 1 had ample opportunity op-portunity to show their se.iworihinc;-. In Archangel, at thi? season of the cnr. til weather has beer, almost tropical, trop-ical, and the American officers, ""ho had expected to find the Arctic frigid even in the eternal daylight days of June and July, were confronted, instead, with temperatures tem-peratures and sunshine that made white duck the prescribed uniform. To hours out of Archangel, however, at the entrance to the White sea. the eagles ran intn a cold gale and snowstorm which set the tight craft tossing and rolling roll-ing and forced the crews quickly info their woolens and oilskins. TIoweer. the eagles kept ploughing alnr.g to their course, and arrived in Kern harbor none ! the worse for one of the worst batterings: they have yet received. V. ith tliei'- t-A o four-inch gur.s. one throe-Inch nt i.Lirera ft g"un and machine k'i: umiaivplMT b'lttery. the e.icles tmgf-t be expected to g. e a good account of iheirseivcs. say the officers, against Fuhmarincs cr any aho-. c-thc-water craft of anythinrr neur their -ize. Tlie tiirre bortts operating In the White, sea m re under t h p com maud of Lieu ten -ant Conimanrier Norman Scott, U. S. N., v hese home is in Indianapolis. j |