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Show NAUTIALNOVELTIES The first hi:'h speed camera wus built ut the mi vul l;i"i factory ut Washington, 1). in collaboration with the Kdison laboratories. The Atlantic end of the Panama canal is westward of the Pacific end. The general direction of the canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific side is south-east. The tide of the Pacific side of the Panama canal averages about twelve and one-half feet rise and fall; on the Atlantic end the rise and fall averages only one foot. The quantity of salt in the ocean varies from fouj- to six percent. Every state in the Union benefits from U. S. naval shipbuilding. Men from 125 trades and professions are employed anil each state furnishes materials. Utah supplies copper, silver, lead, zinc and wool; Idaho furnishes lead, silver, zinc, maganese and lumber; Montana furnishes copper, cop-per, zinc, silver, manganese, leather, wool ami lumber; Wyoming iron ore, wool and fuel oil. Commodore F.sek Hopkins was the only officer to hold the rank of "Commander in Chief of the Navy" in which he was commissioned by congress on December 22, 1775. Only three officers, Farragut, Porter and Dewey, were commissioned as "Admiral "Ad-miral of the Navy." At present, the senior officer afloat in the U. S. navy has the title of "Commander in Chief of the United States Fleet;" he is Admiral David F. Sellers. The bureau of fisheries has determined de-termined that a ship at sea from six to eight months accumulates a growth of barnacles and grass on its bottom of from two to three inches and weighing from 50 to 100 tons. This growth accumulates faster i.i the tropics than in colder waters, and more rapidly when a ship is at anchor than when she is steaming. The growth does not accumulate in fresh water. |