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Show j NAUTICAL :- :- ! -: -: NOVELTIES i i i The following- "Nautical Novelties" are furnished by the U. S. Navy Recruiting Re-cruiting Station-at Salt Lake City: In case of the necessity of abandoning abandon-ing a vessel, the captain is the last person to leave the ship. The mean depths of all the oceans and seas is estimated to be about two and one quarter ..miles. At twelve o'clock noon at Washington, Washing-ton, D. C, the time at San Francisco is 9:00 a. m.; at London 5:00 p. m., and at Hong Kong 1:00 a. m. the next day. ! The publication of the new chart of Cuba by the hydrographic office of the navy, completes a survey in which the navy was engaged for 25 years. To obtain the data for the new chart a total of 2,300 miles of shore line have been surveyed and 23,429 square nautical miles of soundings have been made. During this field work, one ; general chart, 21 coastal charts, and : fit; harbor charts have been envolved, all of them hydrographically and geo-detically geo-detically accurate. Commodore Mathew Calbraith Perry, Per-ry, U. S. N., in March, 1854, acquir- ', ed for the United States the first trade treaty with Japan. An interest-j ! ing souvenir of the Perry expedition ! is preserved at the U. S. Naval aca- j ' demy at Annapolis. It is an ancient 1 bronze bell, cast in 1168, which was! presented to Perry by the Regent of ! Napha, one of the Lew Chew Islands. I The armor of a modern battleship ; weighs approximately eight thousand ' tons. Samoa is the only United States possession south of the equator. j There are valleys in the ocean as ! well as on dry land. The U. S. coast and geodetic survey recently discovered discov-ered a new submarine valley off the Pacific coast which is regarded as an important underwater landmark for( mariners. This submarine valley is lo- j cated north of Monterey, Calif., and : is about three miles long and one mile wide, and has a depth of 200 fathoms, j or 1200 feet. j In 1931 over sixty-five per cent of America's overseas commerce was carried car-ried on foreign ships. During the Boxer Rebellion, navy men repaired the railroad line from Taku to Tientsin, China, and operated it successfully with men taken from the engineering department of American Am-erican vessels. |