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Show -! 1- NAUTICAL NOVELTIES The following "Nautical Novelties" are furnished by the U. S. Navy Recruiting Re-cruiting station at Salt Lake City: The deepest place yet found in the ocean is in the Mindinao Deep, between be-tween the Philippines and Japan, where soundings show 35,410 feet. The "Doldrums" is a narrow belt lying between the northeast and southeast trade winds. It is a region characterized by sultry air, or calms, or light and baffling breezes, interrupted inter-rupted by frequent rains, thunder storms, and squalls. The Doldrums in the Atlantic ocean extend from the quator to the Latitude three degrees north. The "Horse Latitudes" are the regions re-gions of light and variable winds on the outer margins of the trade winds. The Horse Latitudes are also known as the Calms of Cancer and of Capricorn. Capri-corn. The trade winds are those winds which blow from the belts of high pressure towards the equatorial belt of low pressure; in the northern hemisphere hem-isphere from the northeast, and in the southern hemisphere from the southeast. south-east. The "Roaring Forties" are the bois- j terous westerly winds which blow in : the approximate Latitude of forty degrees south. About five West Indian hurricanes occur each year; they are more likely like-ly to occur during August, September and October than in other months. Merchant vessels, when passing a mon-o'-war, salute the latter by dipping dip-ping the national ensigns. The man-o'-war returns "dip for dip." The weight of a ship's anchor in pounds is approximately the same as the displacement of the ship in tons. For example: A ten thousand ton ship will use an anchor weighing about ten thousand pounds. There are sixty-six chaplains in the United States, navy for the purpose of administering to the spiritual needs of the officers and men. There are nine hundred doctors in the U. S. navy to tend to the sick and injured. Some of the doctors are on the ships; others are at naval hospitals hospi-tals where veterans' bureau patients are also admitted in addition to the naval personnel. A deserter from the navy in time of war forfeits his citizenship and becomes be-comes forever prohibited from holding hold-ing office under the United States. The following seven harbors are closed to foreign vessels except by r.pecial authority of the U. S. Navy department: Tortugas, Florida; Great Harbor, Culebra; Guantanamo Naval Station, Cuba; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Guam; Subic Bay, Philippine Islands; Kiska, Aleutian Islands. |