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Show I NAUTICAL NOVELTIES -I 1- The following "Nautical Novelties" i are furnished by the U. S. Navy Recruiting Re-cruiting station at Salt Lake City: The four largest motors ever built propel the new French super-liner, "Normandie." These motors are rated at 40,000 horsepower each, giving the new ship a total horsepower rating of 100,000. Completed, she will be a liner of 73,000 tons, outranking the present pres-ent world's largest, the Majestic, of 5G.C21 tons. The previous record for motors was held by the aircraft carriers, Saratoga and Lexington. Eight motors, each rated at 22,500 horsepower and connected con-nected two to each propelling shaft, are used to drive these vessels with 45,000 horsepower for each propeller. The carriers with 180,000 horsepower are still the most powerful ships in the world. The United States navy has the largest single radio organization in existence. Its four hundred stations ashore and afloat rivals broadcasting networks in size and scope. Radio time signals are sent out daily from Arlington and Mare Island ,o give the correct time to vessels at sea. A chronometer is a clock of very accurate construction, equipped with a special compensating device to reduce re-duce the effect of changes of temperature temper-ature upon its rate. When a vessel crosses the 180th meridian sailing westward, the time ioes not change, but the date increases increas-es one day. When sailing eastward, the date decreases one day. When a vessel enters a channel from the sea, the red buoys are passed pass-ed on the right (starboard) side and the black buoys on the left (port) side. Red buoys have even numbers; black buoys have odd numbers. Buoys are numbered from seaward, the lowest low-est numbers being at the entrance to the channel. White buoys are mooring buoys; yellow buoys are quarantine buoys. The rank of ensign in the navy corresponds cor-responds to that of second lieutenant in the army; junior lieutenant, navy, corresponds to first lieutenant, army; lieutenant, navy, is equivalent to captain cap-tain in army; lieutenant commander corresponds to major; captain is similar sim-ilar to the rank of colonel in' the army. Aboard each vessel of the U. S. navy there is a bank, where money can be deposited by enlisted men. The na-naster of the vessel is responsible for the depositors, and interest on savings sav-ings is paid for at the rate of 4 per cent. The number of enlisted men provided provid-ed for, for the fiscal year 1933 in the navy, is an average of 79,700, which is barely enough to man the ships and stations and does not permit full i Complements. |
