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Show 1- I NAUTICAL :- I : .: -: NOVELTIES j The following "Nautical Novelties", are furnished by the U. S. Navy Re-1 cruiting Station at Salt Lake City: Admiral Farragut was given com- mand of a ship at the age of twelve years. He entered the navy at the age of nine. A battleship can be referred to as a "Floating University." On it, a man of the navy is presented with a chance to learn, both from books and exper- J ience, his chosen vocation in life. The vocation can be one of many, for ex-ample: ex-ample: Stenography, bookkeeping, ra- j dio, carpentry, printing, electricity, machinery, etc. The navy does not expect "all work . and no play" from her men. Like all j schools, she provides her men with the j opportunity to participate in athletics. All capital ships have football, basketball, bas-ketball, boxing, wrestling, and baseball base-ball teams. They also have sailing races, rifle matches, golf matches, rowing races and swimming meets. The instructors in the. schools and coaches of the various teams are' of-: ficers who are graduates of the Unit-' ed States Naval academy at Annapo- j lis, Maryland. The crew of an American destroyer, the U. S. S. Childs, when in Constantinople Constan-tinople some years ago, adopted 40 Russian children, supplying the means for their maintenance and education. A century ago in England, Friday was considered such an unlucky day that the admiralty decided to refute j the superstition with the building of a "Friday" ship. Friday was. the day her keel was laid, and the day she was launched. Friday was the name j of her captain, and the name of the ship. Friday was the day she started on her maiden voyage, and she was never heard of again. The lighthouse on the "Mole of Naples" has been extinguished after burning for 600 years. It was brie of the oldest institutions of Naples ahd was kept burning only for sentimental reasons. The rebuilding of a harbor landing stage made its removal im-' perative. v. The first submarine vessel of the United States navy made its first dive March 17, 1898, remaining under water for one hour and forty minutes. ' The Nautilus holds the navy record for depth, having reached a depth of 336 feet under water. . Our latest, type submarines get their j j lee cream workers struck in Waj ' ing, D. C, the other day. No doj ! they objected to working on sundj electrical power from 120 storage battery bat-tery cells, each cell weighing about 3200 pounds. A submarine can dive from the surface sur-face of the, water and submerge to a depth of 50 feet in 60 seconds. .... Unmarried men, between the ages of .17--and 25 years, are eligible for examination for entrance into the United States navy. The Confederate iron-clad, Virginia, better known as the Merrimac, and the Union iron-clad Monitor, fought the first engagement between armored armor-ed ships at Hampton Roads, Va., on March 9, 1862. When the Confederates' Confeder-ates' evacuated Norfolk . on May 10, 1862, they destroyed the Merrimac by burning. The career of the Monitor was also brief. In December, 1862, she foundered arid sank in heavy seas about fifteen miles south of Cape Hatteras Shoals, North Carolina. |