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...vessel's guns reach twelve kilometers farther than those of our old first-line ships and fire thrice as fast per minute. The risk of its sinking has been materially reduced through a new kind of armor and a new division of bulkheads below the waterline. Its structural advantages are manifold Chief among them are, first, a great saving of weight through the use of light metals in all possible parts; second, weight saving through use of electrical method of welding its plates, doing away with all rivets. Through this alone we saved 550 tons...
...hours. Then the Augustus steamed on. None doubted that Miss Louise Moore had drowned instanter. But 17 hours later, the Italian merchant vessel Capo Nord came wallowing after the Augustus into the vicinity where the tragedy occurred. A lookout peering from the Capo Nord's mast saw or thought he saw a woman floating. Whatever the lookout saw vanished before the Capo Nord could be stopped. Search again proved fruitless. The lookout said: "I distinctly saw a bobbed-haired woman in a pink garment...
Richard Evelyn Byrd's flagship City of New York left for two much-advertised years in Antarctica (TIME, Aug. 20.) Before departure he sent hurry calls to complete the paraphernalia of a miniature civilization stowed aboard the vessel. The list made up by Chief Physician Dr. Francis Dana Coman, of Johns Hopkins, and presented to Charles Capehart, President of the Association Against Impure Liquor, read as follows...
Philip A. S. Franklin, president of the International Mercantile Marine Co., went to a ship, the Virginia (Panama Pacific Line), the largest steamer ever built in the U. S. (thirtyfour thousand tons). He went to look, not to ride; the vessel will not operate until December...
...Seventy years ago [when the orator was ten] the then young North German Lloyd launched its first vessel for trans-Atlantic service. It gave the craft the name of Bremen. . . " Now it is our wish to give this newest and largest vessel of Germany's revived fleet to its elements. ... I christen thee Bremen...