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Show "Nautical Novelties" Are sou informed of the fact mat: Tio Iron Man ii the most coet-ed coet-ed of prises ofitred for compef.it. on in the Navy: no other trophy creates cre-ates the interest shown in the fight for this award. Ever since 1919, it has been competed for, and is awarded each year to the ship cf the Battle Force scoring the greatest number of points in ath letics. The U. S. Submarine S-ll recently re-cently made a successful test dive to the depth of 217 feet; the time required to submerge to this depth was 45 minutes; four minutes was required to emerge to the surface. This particular test is carried out only once each seven years by U. S. Navy Submarines. The battleship Arkansas has just completed 20 years honorable service ser-vice in the U. S. Navy. She has visited ports in twenty countries and has cruised a total of 387.E.93 miles to date. In 1931 after 19 years service she cruised 27,880 miles which only proves that a man in the Navy does see the world. The United States Navy maintains main-tains a gunboat patrol on the Yangtze River in China; six gunboats, gun-boats, constructed especially for this duty, patrol of the Yangtze River, which is navigable for 1500 miles into the interior of China. The U. S. S. Colorado is the second se-cond largest vessel ever launched on the Delaware River. It required 800 skilled men three years to build her. Construction material would require 2,575 freight cars to haul. Steel for hull and decks weighs 16,000 tons, armor 8,000 tons, propellors 30 tons, each of , her five anchors weigh 10 tons and are attached to a chain 720 feet long and each link weighs 100 pounds. - When the President visits a vessel ves-sel of the United States, the President's Pres-ident's flag is broken at the mainmast main-mast the moment he reaches the deck and is kept flying as long as he is abroad. A man cannot be "sentenced to the Navy". Service in the U. S. Navy is a privilege for which only about one man in sixteen can qualify. The total electric power of our nine electrically driven battleships would, if applied to the projection of shells shooting upwards, bombard bom-bard the moon at the rate of six hundred tons of shells a day, or would supply the light, heat and power needs of nine million people. The youngest Rear . Admiral in the U. S. Navy is only 42 years old. he is Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd. The weight of a broadside fired by the battleship Mijs:ssinpi is approximately ap-proximately 17,556 pounds. The above "Nautical Novelties" were furnished by the U. S. Navv Recruiting Station, Salt Lake City, Utah. |