Show NAUTICAL contributed aro are you informed of the fact act that the iron man Is the most covet I 1 cd d of prizes offered for 1 competition 1111 in the navy no other trophy ere ates the interest shown in the tight fight for this award ever since 1919 it t hils has been competed for and Is awarded each year to the ship ot of the battle bathe force scoring the greatest num nuin her of points in athletics I 1 the US submarine 8 11 recently mado a successful test dive to the depth of feet the time lo 10 submerge to cats T his depth was 15 45 tour minutes was required to emerge to the surface this particular test Is carried out only onre once elch seven years by US submarine i the battleship arkansas has just 20 years honorable service in the US navy she has visit v cd ports in twenty countries and has cruised a total of if miles n to date in 1931 after 19 years ser vico vica she cruised 2880 miles wl only proves that a man la 71 the navy does see the world the united states navy nary maintain te a gunboat patrol on the tha yangtze river liver in china six alx gal constructed ted especially m r this duty alty matrol the yangtze river wh which ch I 1 IE navigable ravi gable for or 1500 miles into int the interior ot of china the US S colorado is the second largest vessel ever launched an the deleware river it required skilled men three years to build her construction material would require 2 2575 freight cars vo haul for hull and decks weights tons armor tons propellers propel lors 30 tons each each 0 of her five a alch idlers weigh 10 tons and are attached t to 0 a chain feet beet long and each link weighs pounds when tho the president visits a vessel of the united states slates the dens flag fing Is broken at the mainmast the moment lie he reaches the deck and it kept flying as long as lu is aboard A man cannot be sentenced to 10 the navy service in the U S na vy is a privilege fa or which only about one man in sixteen can quality the total electric power of 0 our nine electrically driven battleships would it applied to the projection ot of shells shooting upwards bombard the moon at the rate of six hundred tons 0 of shells a day or would supply up the light heat and power neils needs ot at nine million people the youngest rear admiral in the V U S navy Is only 42 years old ola he la rear admiral richard E the weight of a broadside ired fired by the battleship mississippi is approximately pounds |