Show NAUTICAL NOVELTIES furnished by the V U S navy recruiting station salt lake city tile navy dirigible macon has adopted as her insignia an acrobat in red tights and yellow shirt swinging front from a trapeze in the act of 0 grasping the hands bands of 0 a fellow performer who comes flying thru the air the significance Is an expression of tile the precis precision loll grace and apparently effortless ease with which the four heavier than air units of the macon engages the hie hook on oil the vertical trapeze of the ship in the navy a rope is always a line nut but it if it is attached to the bow ot of a small boat it la is a how bow painter covering over the exposed e d q steel feel surfaces of turret guns we fire bloomers 1 the united states scrapped thir ty three ships aggregating over tons under the washington ind london naval treaties an amazing event happened in the year 1794 when a french caa r alry ry unit won a naval tit th nitch mitch fleet became icebound ice bound in ill the I 1 he zuyder zee when the french cavalry learned of this they galloped across tile the lee ice surrounded anil and seized the fleet tropical cyclones are confined a almost entirely to five fairly definite legions these regions are 1 I 1 the west indies gulf of mexico Il exico ind coast of florida 2 the china sea philippine islands and japan 3 the arabian sea and bay of bengal engal ri 4 the waters to the east of fit madagascar 5 the waters to the east of australia and samoa A A magnetic compass only indicates cates an approximate heading because of the errors of variation and deviation variation Is due to the homogeneous non magnetic material in the earth it varies through the world and is always changing slightly deviation is due to the individual ships magnetism and changes with the ships heading in the days of wooden ships oak was used exclusively in the construction st of the hull because of its strength and because of its resistance to disintegrating effects of sta spa st a water oak is unsuitable tor for use in iron or steel ships because it contains an acid which attacks the metal the oak causes the metal to rust which in it turn rots the oak |