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Show I NAUTICAL NOVELTIES i i The following "Nautical Novelties" are furnished by the U. S. Navy Recruiting, Re-cruiting, station at Salt Lake City: The U. S. S. Procyon, former flagship flag-ship of the Base Force, put out of ca by way of the stormy North Atlantic. At-lantic. , The navy will enter one balloon in the 1932 International Gordon Bennett cup race to be held at Basle, Switz., on September 23, 1932. Lt. Com. T. G. W. Settle, U. S. Navy, will act as pilot pi-lot and Lieut. Wilfred Busnell as aide. commission last year, is now Demg used as the training ship for cadets of the American Merchant Marine, and is said to be one of the finest ships of her type. Just another old sea-dog making good on the outside. After a vigil of over 70 years in the dangerous waters around Nantucket, Nan-tucket, the old lightship Nantucket has been sold out of service. Through the aid of the Haverhill Elks, the lightship has come into the possession of the Haverhill Boy Scouts, and has been delivered to that port for their use. In honor of the donors, the Boy Scouts have renamed the ship "Elk.'' The Nantucket lightship was one of the first ships of that type completed and entered into lightship service about 1854, continuing on duty in all kinds of weather until about 1924, at which time it was replaced by a more modern vessel. It was sold when the lightship service decided it was of no further value" to them. Sailors of every nation who had occasion to view the North Atlantic have sighted this famous ship, one of the first outposts out-posts to greet those coming to Ameri- These two officers established the world's record for distance in free balloons in 1929 when they were made ' the winners of the national elimination elimina-tion balloon race held at Pittsburgh. They traveled to Prince Edward's Island, Is-land, Can., a distance of 952 mile3, in 43 hours and 2 minutes. The Number Four drydock at the navy yard, Norfolt, Va., is 1,000 feet long, 150 feet wide and 40 feet deep. It requires one hour to fill and three j hours to empty this dock. The pumps which empty it have a capacity of 112,000 gallons of water per minute. The U. S. S. Princeton was the first screw propeller vessel ever built and the first in which the machinery was placed entirely below the water line. The Demologs was the first steam vessel for war purposes in the U. S. navy, or any other navy. It was designed de-signed by Robert Fulton. There have been four American men-of-war named U. S. Lexington, in honor of the historic site on which the first armed conflict of the Revolution Revolu-tion took place. All naval ships are built in the United States by American labor and with. American material, if obtainable. |