Show aho the navy robot the battleship U V S 8 S utah manned by 27 officers and enlisted men Is 18 it a wireless controlled target ship abandoned by its ita crew it can lie ho nt at sea by wireless samoa Is tho the only united stated possession south ot of the equator and Is 18 governed by a naval officer the greatest navai naval building building program ever undertaken na as a unit in III tile the history lil story of the country was ori when the navy department tile tho contracts for tho building of 37 vessels on oil august 3 1933 the U S 8 S tacoma vena w a 5 the first nud and only american glnn o owa pro propelled by y steam to round caia horn lorn V during the past 22 years since the night of april 14 1912 when the liner titanic struck an iceberg oft off the tall of the grand bank and sank with the loss of 1800 1600 lives not a single life has been lost through collision with icebergs along the north atlantic steamship routes due to the excellent work of the united states coast guard gutters cutters which keep in touch with the ice limits as aa they change from day to day and place this information in the hands of approaching ship masters by radio about invade the north atlantic 1 south of newfoundland each year no alo cholle beverages beber bebe agoa rages tire are per witted to bo be used on board ships of the he united states navy except under the direction of medical officers fibers for medicinal tuai purposes in other words the navy vy is st still III dry from time t to 0 time various merchant vessels strangely disappear probably as a result of foundering or breaking up in heavy seas in ili a few instances naval ships similarly apparently vanished in ili october 1780 tile the U 8 sloop of war 16 guns gulls disappeared for ever off the delaware capes lu in july 1800 the U S frigate ansur gonte gente 36 guns gulls captured from tile french vanished after leaving the virginia vir ahila capes in september 1814 tho the U S sloop wasp 22 guns gulls utter after capturing and sending in ili the MS brig atlanta as a prize disappeared in III the eastern atlantic the latest instance oi of a vessel disappearing occurred during the world war when the collier cyclops vanished front from tho seas the old submarine tender sa kannall lias has been stricken from the navy list as being unfit for further naval service and will be disposed of by sale sho she was waa originally the S S Saxon lit of tile hamburg amerl cun call line atia and was taken over hy by the united santes navy during the horld world war r our navy Is worth about two and a half billion dollars ili hi shore property and the he rest lif in ships one or of the first submarines built in the united stathi is on exhibition in ili the brooklyn navy yard this rills submarine named the intelligent whale la is 29 fe feet clong long 9 feet deep carried carrica lo 10 men and was designed to be propelled by hand at 4 knots speed the intelligent whale which was not successful was tried and condemned in 1872 president roosevelt la Is the first chief executive of the united states to visit the Ila hawaiian wallan islands i ile he made the trip on the ten tea thousand ton cruiser U S B S cloux ton work has recently been started on a second ton aircraft car her pierto to be called tile the U S S enterprise |