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Sirs: The enlisted strength of the U.S. Navy is less than 84,000. The officer strength (commissioned and warrant) is less than 7,000. The Shore Stations, etc., Detached Units, Special Service Squadron and Asiatic Fleet account for, normally, somewhere between 30 and 45% of the total strength. This is governed by conditions such as overhaul periods, etc. The joint maneuvers of the Scouting and Battle Fleets are not participated in by all units of these floating organizations. This arises from the necessity of repairs, overhaul and other conditions affecting the vessels attached to these fleets. From participation in several...
Petition, Tragedy, Advice. Moved by a petition in which 1,200 U.S. citizens, many of them clerics, urged him not to abandon the goal of reducing armaments, chief U.S. delegate Henry Lewis Stimson announced that a minimum 200,000 ton reduction of the U.S. fleet, and an even larger reduction of the British fleet is possible insofar as these nations by themselves are concerned, but basically the announcement was a left-handed reminder that everything depended on the attitude of "other powers...
Years before the War, Herr von Tirpitz gave up hope of beating the British fleet in open battle, concentrated secretly on submarines, then little more than an experimental toy. Many are the stories told of the grand admiral's extraordinary technical knowledge. It was a matter of pride with him never to speak from notes. Aides recall that during his years as grand admiral he could recite from memory the name, speed, armament and displacement of every battleship in the world...
...some encouragement, but no help; when he came to Spain he was an exhausted beggar, in his late 40's. Said he: "I must beg my bread because Kings will not accept the Empires that I offer them." When Ferdinand and Isabella finally fitted out his little fleet of three boats, the crews had to be made up of criminals and riffraff: no one else would join. The voyage of discovery took more than two months: from Aug. 3 to Oct. 12. The first land sighted was an island called by the Indians Guanahani: geographers today think...
...surest way to answer that is to give results as seem within reach up to date. The plan which appears acceptable to America and Great Britain provides for a net reduction of over 200,000 tons in the tonnage of the American fleet and an even larger reduction on the part of the British fleet...