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Bearing down on Bermuda too was the British Atlantic Fleet led by the world's mightiest battleships, Nelson and Rodney, whose maneuvers in West Indian waters just happen to coincide with the Princes' tour. Operating from three British naval bases in American waters, Bermuda, Jamaica and Barbados, at least one important British ship will call at each of Britain's tiny American islands: Trinidad, Dominica, Antigua, St. Kitts, Tobagov...
Appointed. Rear Admiral Thomas C. Hart, 53, Commander of the Control force of the U. S. Fleet; to be Superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.; succeeding Rear Admiral Samuel Shelburne Robison. retiring. During the World War Admiral Hart commanded Submarine Divisions 4 and 5 in European waters, was awarded a Distinguished Service Medal. Since 1923 he has commanded the Mississippi, served as supervisor of New York Harbor, commanded the Submarine Divisions of the Battle Fleet. He became a Rear Admiral in October 1929, Commander of the Control Force...
...said to have offered to endow him for $20,000 a year should he choose to undertake independent research. Herbert elected to work for Western Air Express, without parental subsidy. Within two months he sent for able young Friend Franklin to join him. The T. A. T.-Western fleet comprises 36 radio-equipped planes. Radioman Hoover often listens to pilots exchanging messages 2,200 mi. distant as they fly between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Once in the quiet hours after midnight he tuned in just in time to hear the pilots of two mail planes swapping bawdy stories...
While the court continued to sit last week, while the mothership Lucia remained disgracefully at anchor, the Atlantic Fleet, including four motherless submarines, steamed off for the West Indies...
...Roosevelt Lines' fleet of 18 Government-owned motorships operating to Australia, India, the Philippines and the Far East, the deal adds I. M. M.'s consolidated fleet of 46 steamers. At present I. M. M. is the U. S. agent of its once greatest unit, White Star. While it no longer owns the White Star's big three, it still has many an interesting ship. Of these, especially famed are: 1) Pennsylvania, California, and Virginia, turbo-electrics operated by Panama Pacific Line, the largest U. S.-built ships of their type; 2) Minnetonka and Minnewaska of Atlantic Transport Lines...