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Show Navy Day 1931 Navy Day 1931 comes on October Octo-ber 27 noted as the birthday of Theodore Roosevelt, the friend and creator of the Modern Navy of the United States.. Hence the Navy acknowledges its dobt to this President whose interest in the Navy Establishment began when an undergraduate at Harvard Har-vard and continued throughout his entire life. The purpose of Navy Day is te afford the cjtizens of the country an opportunity to see and know the Navy of the today. The Navy is owned by the country as a whole, and once a year, No.vy Yards and Stations, Hospitals and Bases, Ships and Vessels of the Fleet are open to visitors so that the people may see the Navy in action. Because of distance dis-tance and many other factors, many people are prevented from insoecting the many and various activities of the Navy. Even those who hove sons and relatives are not able to inspect the ships on which their kinfolk serve. The following information u therefore submited to give the citizens of this inland country an idea of "Their Navy." The Omaha Interesting facts and figures of the Light Cruiser Omaha a vpical unit of our fighting Hect are quoted for your information The Omaha second of her name in the Navy, was placed in com- . mis.ion on 17 March, 1923. She is named after Omaha, Nebraska the metropolis of that state. Since the date of commissioning she has cruised a total of 199 6C5.5 miles, touching the cold windswept shares of Alaska and rearhjng the fringe of the tropical tropi-cal moonlitbeach at Waikiki, she has anchored under the lee ol the vo.lcanic hills of Samoa and beside the Palisades of the Hudson. Hud-son. Her crew have seen the primitive life of the Perlas Islands Is-lands and walked the streets ol cultured Boston, the "Hub of the Universe." The Omaha is a light cruiser, (7500 tons), built for speed, and to act as a scout. She is 550 fett wide, giving her the maximum maxi-mum stream lines for slidmp; through and "o'er the bounding main." Her engines have the double horsepower of the newest Majestic and Leviathan which are four times the size of the Omaha, have 15.000 less horsepower than the Omaha to drive them or. their trans-Atlantic trips. Even the newest passenger ljners with their high records of speed, can easily be overtaken by the Omaha with her speed of 34 knots. The Omaha holds the cruiser record re-cord for time betwi-en Honolulu and California, and the Saratoga and the Lexington are the orly ' other ships in the world which have surpassed it. The engineering engin-eering plant is a wonder. Every second 108 gallons ol water ar- changed into stean.. &o last is the evaporation that should the feed pumps (fupply water) to tht boilers iajl, the water in the boilers would be completely evaporated eva-porated and the boilers burnt up in thirty seconds. The Omaha, because of its duties, may be called upon to be independent for months at :-. time. Hence her refrigerating plant has the capacity to carry fresh beef. eggs. butter, and fowl in sufficient quantities to last the crew of 450 men f.'.r ninety dayj. Her distilling plant has a daily output of 26, ,000 gallons of fresh water. Ke.-S Ke.-S electric light plant would be iamnle to meet the needs of a ! town of 3.000 inhabitants. Stu: has a stean laundry, complete in all respects to wash the gar ments of her crew. Motion p'ctures are projected each night, and within two month-;, the talkirg pictures will become a fact There is a high pover radio ra-dio on board for officio! use. irnd one of the prn.iects for th Navy Yard period is to intnll a radio svstem for the broadcast broad-cast irs cf station programs for the bene-lit cf the crew. The Omaln is a home for five hundred o'.ficers and men Hence included in its equipment, is a lib.-ary of over twelve hundred volumes, .?cntain;r.g sv-rrv sv-rrv tvpe of bock from the tn-h-ni'ral" tt books on Naval Warfare War-fare through biography to mod-orn mod-orn dav fiction End detective s;or;o " Entertainment? are pro-jvided pro-jvided whenever possible. |