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...eight destroyers sighted the Indianapolis and its escort Chester off the coast of Uruguay, fired 21 guns and formed up behind as escort. When the Indianapolis arrived in Buenos Aires, President Justo and practically the entire Argentine and U. S. delegations to the Peace Conference were on the dock in top hats and full official regalia. "Mi amigo!" exclaimed Linguist Roosevelt as he seized his peer's hand and did one of his "great guy" acts. For five miles from the landing place to the U. S. Embassy, President Justo and ten carloads of officials escorted Franklin Roosevelt through...
...Charleston with Governor Johnston of South Carolina and Mayor Maybank beside him he drove through two miles of cheering crowds to the Navy dock. There lay the fast cruiser Indianapolis, her rails lined with blue jackets at attention. Accompanied only by his son James, his son's friend Edward" Gallagher, his Military and Naval aides and White House physician, the President climbed the gangplank and was piped aboard. He ascended to the bridge, waved good-by and promised, "I'm going to have a good time...
...craft, to be known as the ARD3 (Auxiliary Repair Dock), will be 1,016 ft. long, 165 ft. beam, 75 ft. high from keel to top deck. It will have a streamlined bow like any ordinary ship and steering equipment in the stern, so that it can be towed by one of the auxiliary train at a rate of ten knots. Also in its stern there will be a pair of huge dam gates that will reveal, when opened, a great rectangular chasm, 125 ft. wide and running almost the entire length of the craft, into which disabled ships will...
...small experimental craft of some similar design, which it has been trying out for two years on small destroyers and submarines. When bids are opened this week for the construction of the ARD-3, shipbuilders will be preparing bids for the building of the ARD-2, a sister dock of the experimental ARD-1, which is 446 ft. long. The ARD3 is intended for use in the Pacific and will probably be built somewhere on the Pacific Coast, since it will be too large to pass through the Panama Canal...
...review at Portland the Home Fleet, just back from "threatening" Italy in the Mediterranean (TIME, Sept. 30, 1935). The Royal Yacht Victoria & Albert on which King George and Queen Mary always put to sea to review the fleet was slept in by King Edward, tied to the dock at Portland. Rousingly cheered, His Majesty cried genially, "The last time I was at Portland, I was a midshipman!", proceeded to inspect the fleet from a fast admiral's barge...