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Show "Nautical Novelties" Two Naval battles have been fought on Lake Champlain. The first engagement took place during the Revolutionary War on October 11 to 13, 1776 with Brigadier General Gen-eral Benedict Arnold in command of the American ships and General Sir Guy Carleton in command of the British vessels. Arnold lost his inferior fleet but the resulting delay de-lay compelled Carleton to give up his plans cf joining Howe to the south that year. The second battle was fought during the War of 1812, on September 11, 1814, when Captain Thomas MacDonough's signal victory practically ended the war. By order of the President about two hundred Medical Officers . of the Navy have been ordered to report re-port to the War Department for duty as doctors with the Civilian Conservation Corps Camp. Naval Academy gymnasts won the Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastic Gym-nastic League championship for 1933. Nn shins of the Navy, or the Naval Academy will be permitted to dispense the new 3.2 beer. While permitting sale of beer at Ship's Service Stores ashore, and officers' clubs within naval reservations, reserva-tions, the Secretary of the Navy has decreed that none shall be sold or consumed aboard ships of the Navy. The Panama Canal was started in 1904, was eight years in the building, cost 305 million dollars and required 35,000 men to complete com-plete its construction. The first all-welded ship to be built for the United States Navy is the harbor tug YT 119, stationed at Pearl Harbor. She has Diesel-plpctric Diesel-plpctric drive and can make 13 knots. Welding is being used in a number of ships to save weight in the hull. The Germans were able to decrease the weight of the hull considerably by this means, in the construction of their cruisers. Four members of the Roosevelt family have been Assistant Secretaries Secre-taries of the Navy: Theodore, Franklin, Theodore Jr., and Henry Roosevelt. The speed of advance of a squall is usually about 25 to 35 miles per hour, but in some cases as hich as 60 miles an hour nas oeen (noted. The horizontal length may j vary from a few miles up to 1000 miles The vertical extent may oe-! oe-! cur up as far as 20,000 feet. I Guns aboard ships of the frigate type were mounted on small wooden wood-en wheels and when not in use the guns were lashed down. Sometimes Some-times in a seaway a gun would break loose and, swishing back and forth with the roll of the shin, would do great damage. The N'avy first investigated the possibilities of aviation for naval purposes in 190U, when two of-r.nn of-r.nn vere detailed as observers for the test of the Wright plane at Fort Mver. Va. In 1910 Captain Chambers endeavored en-deavored to interest the Wright Brothers in making a flight from a U S. man-of-war. Wilbur Wright declined to make the attempt. The Curtis Co., was then approached and agreed to try it. The neces-sarv neces-sarv arrangements were made and onNoveiber 14, 1910, the Curtis representative. Eugene Ely, successfully suc-cessfully flew a 50 horsepower Curtis Cur-tis landplane from a hastily built platform on the bow of the U. S S. Birmingham at Hampton Roads, Virginia. The first notable flight by naval aviator was accomplished by Lt. John Rogers who, in the autumn cf 1911, flew from Annapolis to Washington and then to College Park,. Maryland; from which place he later returned to Annapolis via Baltimore and Havre de Grace. In 1912 Lieut. Towers established a new world's endurance record for seaplanes by remaining in the air six hoilrs and 20 minutes. The catapult was invented in 1912: and the first shot made, with Lieut. Ellyson as pilot, was unsuccessful. un-successful. The catapult was redesigned re-designed and Lieut. Ellyson was successfully catamilted from a float at the Washington Navy-Yard Navy-Yard on October 12, 1912. In June, 1913 Lieut. Bellinger hung up a world's record for altitude al-titude with a seaplane, by ascending ascend-ing to 6,200 feet in a Curtis. In the summer of 1913, First Lieut. B. L. Smith made the first successful suc-cessful flight in an amphibian by flying from the water to land and back to water. When the Atlantic Fleet was ordered or-dered to Mexican waters in April, 1914, two planes were sent with the U. S. S. Mississippi and one with the U. S. S. Birmingham. The planes from the Mississippi operated r"er the' -trenches for 4 ' days and their scouting work was -f much value to the combined Army Ar-my and Navy operations at Vera Cruz. In June of 1914 the Navy was making preparations for a trans-Atlantic trans-Atlantic seaplane flight in a twin motored nymg dopi, nameu iu-; America. This project was abandoned aban-doned on account of the outbreak ,rf the World War. The success of the planned flight seemed feasible but it was not until five yea'-s later, in 1919, that the Navy accomplished ac-complished this feat with thp flight of the NC-4 under command of Lieutenant Commander A. C Read. The U. S. Navy built the first wind tunnel for aeronautical research re-search to be established in this country. The above "Nautical Novelties were furrished by the U. S. Navy Recruiting Station, Salt Lake City Utah. |