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...Cervera's squadron, were four armored cruisers each more heavily gunned than any vessels of the corresponding type in the U. S. Navy and of almost equal speed. These are the fine vessels that the writer contemptuously refers to:-"wretched ships, equipment and support, sailed his rusty little fleet of four cruisers and three destroyers across the Atlantic...
Later these same ships fought most valiantly but unavailingly against the superior force of the American Fleet, under the command of that gallant and chivalrous Spanish gentleman and brilliant officer Admiral Cervera, who justly gave merited praise to the handsome manner in which Lieutenant Hobson executed a most difficult and hazardous maneuver, under which the unarmed, frail collier was subjected to what was probably the heaviest fire ever concentrated upon a single ship, before or since...
That the Spanish fleet which holed up in Santiago harbor was no match for the U. S. fleet, is no discredit to the bravery of Lieutenant Hobson, whose attempt to cork the harbor entrance was nevertheless a fiasco. But Reader Dohrman does not know much about his friend's era if he is not aware that two fleets were never more unevenly matched than the Spanish and U. S. at Santiago on July 3, 1898. Admiral Cervera's fleet consisted of four cruisers, three torpedo boats. One cruiser, the Cristóbal Colón, was minus...
...least two years. But it could get permission to land in Europe only by agreeing to share the route on a reciprocal basis with Britain, which had no planes commercially able to span an ocean. In the past six months slow-moving Britain has finally acquired a fleet of Short Brothers flying boats capable of making transatlantic tests...
...Last week Lockheed announced that the first eight S-14s had been ordered by Northwest Airlines, which bought the first Electra. In June the bigger, roomier S-14s will replace Northwest's present Electras on its 2,000-mi. run from Chicago to Seattle, give it the fastest fleet in the world-cruising at 224 m.p.h., with top speed...