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Show "Nautical Novelties" Are you informed of the fact that: At the Fleet Air Base, Coco Sole, Canal Zone it is necessary' to have the swimming pool enclosed en-closed by nets to make it shark proof. The new swimming pool is an enclosed space on the beach 8ii0 feet by 400 feet with a depth cf 40 feet and a fine sand beach. Recently several NaVy" planes had the experience of flying below be-low sea level. This occured when the planes made a trip to Furnace Fur-nace Creek Ranch in Death Valley Val-ley on a survey of the landing fields, natural and man-made in that locality. The planes took the air and proceeded almost the full length of Death Valley (75 miles) at from minus 100 feet to minus 300 feet for the greater part of the way. Evidently the air was heavier below sea level and much to the surprise of the flyers no "bumpiness" was experienced. Aboard the U. S. S. "Rochester" "Roches-ter" on a recent trip from Honolulu Hono-lulu to Guam two emergency operations op-erations for Scute appendicitis were performed within eight days. Both operations were entirely successful. During recent maneuvers the U. S. S. "Gilmer," ;a destroyer, struck a sixty foot black fish. The shock of the collision rocked the boat. Badly bleeding the fish was attacked by a myriad of sharks that quickly disposed of the victim. vic-tim. T'hs Navy Regulations require that the national anthems of foreign for-eign states ETiall be played by the band of a ship as a compliment in the morning after colors as follows; the national anthem of the port followed oy the national anthem of the ships of war present pres-ent in the order of rank. Recently while moored in Shanghai the flugsliip "Houston" played eight national anthems in succession. In one week during the recent trouble in Shanghai, the man-of-war traffic past the "Houston's" moorings comprised 86 Japanese, 10 British, 5 United States and ' one Italian, French and Portu guese. The query "Where do sailors come from?" is answered in part by a tabulation of figures recently recent-ly made public showing the four states having the highest number num-ber of men in the Navy for the year 1931. The state of New York furnishes the most men to man our ships of war. There were 5,-826 5,-826 enlisted men from that state, 4,865 from Pennsylvania, 4,405 from Massachusetts and 3,623 from Illinois a thousand miles from salt water. The world's largest lock is not in the Panama Canal but Is in Holland; it is the third lock in the North Sea Canal and is 1,315 ft. long, 16' ft. wide and 50 ft. deep. Tatoo marks, once closely associated asso-ciated with seafaring men, was in the beginning a mark ol slavery. It was a custom of the early Moorish and Tripolitan pirates pi-rates to place a distinctive, mark on the face and arms of their captives, much as Mohammedan women are tatooed at the present time. When sailor prisoners escaped es-caped they returned home to exhibit ex-hibit proudly their marks of captivity. cap-tivity. Jealous mariners, who stayed at home, hastened to set up in business, that eminent gentlfeman, the tatoo artist. The above "Nautical Novelties" were furnished by the U. S. Navy Na-vy Recruiting Station, Salt Lake City, Utah. |