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Show j "Nautical Novelties" Are you informed of the fact that: The four largest motors ever built propel the new French super-Liner super-Liner "Normandie". These motors are rated at 40,000 horsepower each, giving the new ship a- total horsepower rating of 160,000. Completed Com-pleted she will be a liner o 73,000 tons, outranking the present world's largest, the Majestic of 56,621 tons. The previous record for motors was held by the aircraft carrier Saratoga and Lexington. Eight motors rated at 22,500 horsepower and connected two to each propelling propel-ling shaft are used to drive these vessels with 45,000 horsepower for each propeller. The carriers with 180,000 horsepower are still the most powerful ships in the world. The United States Navy has the largest single radio organization m existence. Its four hundred stations ashore and afloat rivals broadcasting broadcast-ing networks in size and scope. Radio time signals are sent out daily from Arlington and Mare Island Is-land to give the correct time to vessels at sea. Achronometer is a clock of very accurate construction, equipped with a special compensating device de-vice to reduce the effect of changes chang-es of temperature upon its rate. When a vessel crosses the 180th meridian sailing Westward, the time does not change but the date j increases one day. When sailing Eastward the date decreases one ' day. When a vessel enters a channel from the sea, the red buoys are passed on the right (starboard) J UTnnV side and the black buoys on the left (port) side. Red buoys have even numbers; black buoys have odd numbers. Buoys are numbered from seaward, the lowest numbers being at the entrance to the channel. chan-nel. White buoys are mooring buoys; yellow buoys are quarantine buoys. The rank of Ensign in the Navy corresponds to that of Second Lieutenant in the Army; Junior Lieutenant, Navy, corresponds to First Lieutenant Army; Lieutenant in the Navy is equivalent to Captain Cap-tain in the Army; Lieutenant Commander corresponds to Major, Captain in the Navy is similar to the rank of Colonel in the Army. Aboard each vessel of the U. S. Navy there is a bank where money can be deposited by enlisted men. i The paymaster of the vessel is responsible re-sponsible for the deposits, and interest in-terest on savings is paid for at the rate of 4 percent. The number of enlisted men provided pro-vided for, for the fiscal year 1933 j in the Navy is an average of 79 . 1700, which is barely enough to man the ships and stations and :does not permit fuU complements. I The above "Nautical Novelties" I were furnishsed by the U. S. Navy . Recruiting Station, Salt Lake City Utah. |