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Show NAUT1CALN0VELTIES During the past 21 years, since the night of April 11, 1012, when the liner lin-er Titanic struck an iceberg off the tail of the grand bank and sank with the loss of 1500 lives, not a single; life has been lost through collision ! with ice along the north-Atlantic! steamship routes, due to the excellent! work of the U. S. coast guard cut- ters which keep in touch with the ice limits as they change from day to j day and place this information in the hands of approaching shipmasters by! radio. About 350 bergs invade the! north-Atlantic south of Newfoundland Newfound-land every year. i Our latest type submarines get their electrical power from 120 stor- j age batteries cells, each cell weigh-1 ing about 3200 pounds. j Even with the naval construction program authorized by the industrial recovery act, the navy will be 86 vessels ves-sels below treaty strength. The U. S. navy's fir.st steel ship of domestic manufacture was the; Dolphin, built in 1885 and which! served over 30 vears. i 1 |