Show NAUTICAL NOVELTIES contributed are you informed ot of the fact act that the merchant fleet luct of the united n d states stales in 1920 was almost eq equal ina lite t to 0 that ot of great britain in 1932 grent great had over 2 tons of 0 merchant it shipping on the high seas while the united states was waa in second place with tons there were enlistments in tho the navy for the year 1931 and there were only 13 net desertions tor for this period april seems to be taie 10 war month of the united states state fineout tive oui of six of 0 our major wars started in ili april the new orleans ton cruiser now about 30 per lent lenti completed has as and will be built to a great extent by welding instead ot of the bureau of navigation navy department recently received a re truest tor for information regarding the U iii alber ot of men by the nama 0 of mith that served in tin thi navy or vaine cops during the world war it las I as been aseer that there were smiths in the united states slates army during the world war and smiths in the navy and marine corps during the same period the army and navy pilots pilot ot of the united states had more tim time in the air during 1931 than any other nation according to estimates made in washington the total tor for the two services was hours in the air or about hours for or each pilot in the army and hours tor for each navy pilot reports from froin other countries show that the total flying time OZ ot the british royal air force in 1931 was hours french air forces between betwee 1 and hours italy netherlands sweden and denmark the number dumber of hours flown by U S corces is equivalent to having ta if planes in the air for every minute tor for each day and night light ot of the year A signal light with teri ot ol such precision JaP approximately Proximately 20 words a minute may be in dot dash codi code will ile bo installed on oil tile airship Az arcon neon when it is completed in akrom the new light arill throw a beam ot of light 30 miles away and yet use only a COO watt lamp it weighs only 11 pounds and 4 ounces the shutter la Is operated by LL a hand band trigger and may lie be opened mid and closed tomps a minute the U S S hannibal ila ship has just juit eight months survey work ott off the coast of venezuela and panama A total lot of 1700 miles was surveyed this work la is a continuation of the task undertaken unde Maken by the navy department of compiling charts ot of three these regions which have not dot been charted before or where the charts now are arc so old and badly con d is as to 0 o be useless to the aarinen ilar inci in some nonie cases the danill jal round found great changes la in tho the coa can ot of the coast line as well viell a in the depth of whirr b ilac oli inal surveys made by the oid spanish ships from 60 50 to years ago rt |