Show NAUTICAL NOVELTIES contributed are arc you informed of 0 the fact that in the IT S navy the mess megs rooka rood for the commissioned officers ot of the ship above the rank of 0 ensign Is cal ailed lie Wai wardroom droom that name goes bach to the navy from chilli we got it hut but why lies has been lost it 11 the traditions of tho naval service Ser vico in the battleships of 0 the doltish navy there Is a mess mesa called the gun room it Is here that the junior commissioned officers eat and it Js is so go called because the and ismail email arms were and are arc stored there in our navy this mesa is called the steerage the other mass mss looms take names from the ank or rate A who aho ho use ise them such as ho warrant officers mesa and the chief petty officers mesa tile the expression a rope nope yarn surk sun boy or holiday originated in the days of the selling sailing filp it Is now gone generally rally regarded as a day of 0 loaf and holiday routine but the real j purpose of the lay day when it was first instituted was to a tine time ti ne when file I 1 lie men would b be e free to fiend their own clothes sew on oil but tors and patches stow lockers anti to those personal things that filet would improve the appearance 0 of the ithe sailor the automobile torpedo was first introduced ant i oil to tho the woi world id in 1865 by captain leippes oi oc tile the austrian novy navy and subsequently developed with a remarkable degree ft cf is b by y robert whitehead cad in thus creating international comment the first torpedo launched in actual war occurred in 1877 when the vessel shah fire ire at a PEru peruvian worship with unsuccessful ri r suits stilts due to miscal of tile the range tile the first vessel to actually suffer destruction from a torpedo was mas the chilean naval vessel blanco which was attacked at her anchorage under cover of darkness aej an athin the comparatively short range of 0 yards the ships bell of 0 the V U S S pittsburgh recently commissioned de ae d was placed in III the carnegie carnega Car negi a museum in pittsburgh pennsylvania whre it will remain as a memorial to sailors ors and marines one 0 of the earliest references fit n regard to the display ol of the church pennant is found in an all order issued by admiral farragut in III the U S S hartford artford If off the city ot of new orleans april 26 isis 1 it reads as follows eleven this homr ing la Is the hour appointed tor for all of f cers and crews of 0 the fleet to return thanks to the almighty god for or his lii goodness and mercy in permitting us ug to pass through the events of 0 the last two days with so little loss og ot of life and blood at that hour the church pennant will be hoisted ho leicil on every vessel and their crews as smiled will in humiliation and prayer make their acknowledgment to it the great dispenser of all human events |