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Last week in San Francisco's harbor lay the Kwang Yuan, a 28 year-old tramp three-master. Her deck machinery was rusted tight by rain, barnacles were four inches deep on her rusty hull. In the captain's quarters lounged "Captain" Chan Tze-ming; in the engine room "Chief Engineer" Wang Chi-fu reigned over nosy harbor rats and cold, dry engines. It was the Kwang Yuan's third year at anchor...
...striking speed of a 12-inch armor-piercing coast guard rifle shell at close range. But air bombs are not armor-piercing. They explode on contact. To reach a Queen Elizabeth magazine from between the forward turrets (extremely lucky hit), a bomb would have to penetrate one unarmored deck, one 2-inch armor deck, another 1¼-inch armor deck, another 1-inch armor deck, and then the magazine's 9-inch armor ceiling-a total of 13¼ inches of armor. But the bomb would explode and stop penetrating when it hit the very first deck. Alternatively...
...hitherto Britain's most modern capital ships. Of their displacement weight, 40% is in armor, which is 16 inches thick at the water line, and they are equipped with Degaussing girdles (insulation from magnetic mines). Elated that a direct bomb hit on the 6¼-in. deck armor of the Rodney produced only a dent, Admiralty circles pronounced the new ships "almost unsinkable" and Britain's answer to the Nazi air threat...
...dangers of the sea are passed and those of the firm ground begin. Naples seemed carnival-gay as we sailed in, with bands playing, flags fluttering. The sun was blazing-luncheon was laid on deck. The bay looked like a poster of itself. For an hour or so we clattered around the town in a fiacre (Naples hasn't heard of rubber tires yet), stopping occasionally to drink coffee...
Varsity and Freshman golfers reported to Coach Clark Hodder yesterday afternoon to horn plans outlined for the coming season. Captain Ace Cordingley and Bob Graves are the two outstanding stars on deck for their last year of competition, while Sophomores Waddy Dickerman and Don Elbel round out the list of returning lettermen...