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Show ' U. S. SHIP NEVER JILLGOJISEA It's Called a Vessel, but 4 Really It It a Castle. By Associate1 Pre. AMERICAN NAVAL KASE IN TRANCE, Oct. 29. Tha United Htates hip Carola, a craft that never went to e and never will, a xveel" with stone walla, underground duns; eons, twenty miles of tunnel and a vast hulk of masonry ma-sonry anchored to mother earth, Isone of the sight a at thla port. If la a maasiv castl standing; at the water's edge that bears this Strang name. It la an ancient chateau, built 00 years ago. In the thirteenth century, and on of the marvela of Gothic ar-; ar-; chlteotural conntruction. It Is used now aa the United Htatee naval barrai a and. being put to naval aaea. It waa given a naval clirls'entnjr as the t. H. H. Carola. It la no nickname, lut la the accepted , title known to all. offlcera and men. Binr christened aa a United Htates ah I p. even the battlements have become decks. When, down in the old dun neon, a sailor guided me upward by aaing. r "This way, air, to the main deck." And we climbed up th "natchway" (of crumbling; atonea) to the main "deck" uf Gothic masonry twelve feet thick). 'Th way this castl came to be named ss a United Htatea waranlp was this: The United States ship 1 Carola la In reality real-ity a small steam yacht, uaed during- the HpanUh war. It waa rather out of date k and was tied up to the ess tie wall. Here It became very useful tn making; out requisitions for supplies needed in the X castle. To make a requisition for a cae-IjgLgj cae-IjgLgj te would sem quite Irregular. And so f everyt hi nc was requisitioned for the United Ktatea ship Carola. and In that way the caatle got Ita equipment with-, with-, sut diaturbing; any formallues. |