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...After taking counsel of the Department of State, Representative Butler, Chairman of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, reported last week a vigorous Naval Constitution Bill, appropriating $110,560,000. The bill calls for the conversion of the six defective battleships into oil-burners, blister protection against submarines, further deck protection against air attack, and new fire controls on the New York and Texas-the whole at a cost of $18,360,000. In addition, the building program calls for eight scout cruisers, costing $11,000,000 each, and six river gunboats (for Chinese service) at $700,000 each...
...crew, there is the bo'sun, with the beautiful dancing girls au naturel tatooed on his hairy arm; Kitty McCann, the Cap'n's wife, "half owner and sole boss of the schooner, whose right arm was sheer muscle and whose footwork as she bounded on the deck proclaimed that she could take a fall out of any man not specially trained to withstand her"; Oilskin Jack and Bonita Sam, who finally wearied of sailoring and bought a little farm in Australia with an asthmatic horse, a "tailless rooster and two scolding hens" for equipment; and the sailmaker...
...standing on deck when I saw a carriage driving furiously up to the quay, surrounded by a guard of shabby arquebussiers--a lady was dragged out of the carriage and shoved up the plank on to the ship. An old man jerked her toward me and put a letter in my hand. 'An order from the King!' said he, 'a prisoner' of State to be taken to Louisiana and delivered to the Governor...
...President personally hung the Congressional Medal of Honor around the neck of Henry Breault, torpedoman, second class, U. S. N. On Oct. 28, 1923, Breault was aboard the submarine O-5 sunk in Limon Bay off the Panama Canal in collision with the merchantship Abangares. He reached the deck before the submarine sank, discovered that one of his comrades was trapped below. He rushed down, shut a water-tight door and remained with his shipmate until the submarine was raised by a salvage party 38 hours later...
OUTWARD BOUND-An excursion upon the vast ocean of the hereafter, en- thralling and moving, with a remarkable cast on deck to incite to thought...