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Show The visitor viewing the sights on board a modern man-o-war soon perceives that a battleship is not only a seag-oing vessel and a floating fortress, but is also a highly organized mobile city with trained executives and skilled artisans in the many trades and occupations of cosmopolitan activity. Modern national defense is closely related to the useful vocations vo-cations of industrial life, and the carefully selected men who are trained in the naval service are a nattional asset of American life. ' - |