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Show "Nautical Novelties" Are you Informed of the fact that: The U. S. S. PROCYON, former flagship of the Base Force, put out of commission last year, is now being used as the training ship for cadets of the American Merchant Marine, and is said to be one of the finest ships -of her type. Just "another old sea-dog making good on the outside. After' a vigil of over 70 years in the dangerous waters around Nan-ticket, Nan-ticket, the old lightship Nantucket has been sold out of .service. Through the aid of the Haverhill Elks, the lightship has come into the possession of the Haverhill Boy Scouts, and has been delivered deliver-ed to that port for their use. In honor of the donors, the Boy Scouts have renamed the ship "ELK." The Nantucket Lightship was one of the first ships of that type completed and entered the lightship light-ship service about 1854, continuing on duty in all kinds of weather until 1924, at which time, it was replaced by a more modern vessel. It was sold when the lightship service decided it was of no further fur-ther value to them. Sailors of every ev-ery nation who had occasion to view the North Atlantic have sighted this famous ship, one of ' the first outposts to greet those coming to America by way of the stormy North Atlantic. The Navy will enter one baloon ! in the 1932 international Gordon j Bennett cup race to be held at j Basle, Switzerland on September j 23, 1932. Lt. Comdr. T. G. W. Settle, U. S. Navy, will act as pi- ' lot and Lieut. Wilford Busnell as J aide. These two officers established the world's record for distance in free balloons in 1929 when they were the winners of the national elimination balloon race held at Pittsburgh. They traveled to Prince Edward's Island, Canada, a distance of 952 miles in 43 hours and 2 minutes. The Number Four Dry Dock at the Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia, is 1000 feet long, 150 feet wide and 40 feet deep. It requires one hour to fill and three hours to empty this dock. The pumps which empty it have a capacity of 112,00 0 gallons of water per minute. min-ute. The TJ. S. S. PRINCTON was the first screw propeller vessel ever ev-er built and the first in which the machinery was placed entirely below be-low the water line. The DEMOLOGOS was' the first steam vessel for war purposes in the U. S. Navy, or any other Navy. It was designed by Robert Fulton. There have been four American men-of-war named U. S. S. LEXINGTON LEX-INGTON in honor of the historic nite on which the first armed conflict of xthe Revolution took place. All naval ships are built in the United States by American labor and with American material if obtainable. ob-tainable. The above Nautical Novelties were submitted by the U. S. Naval Recruiting Station, Salt Lake City, Utah. |