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...cutters, the Tampa and Modoc, alternate in patrolling the ice region for 15 successive days, and at the end of that time one patrol vessel is relieved by the other which rests in Halifax. The oceanographic staff, however, is obliged to spend over six months without sight of land, changing from one cutter to the other by lifeboat. The duties of this staff are numerous and consist of broadcasting radio reports to all vessels in the vicinity, making charts of the behavior of the bergs and of studying general oceanic conditions. The Green-Bigelow bottle, invented by H. B. Bigelow...
...sailor who later died. A murderer by gossip, John Paul finally set his course northward, took Jones for a last name and came to North America. In 1776 he was made a Captain in command of a flagship. A narrow elegant figure, he stood on the bridge of this vessel and set out to make the world ring with his name...
While writers of three generations have been spinning yarns on the epic of the fighting frigate that captured the British vessel Guerriere, and motion pictures of this generation have aided in immortalizing it, the tale of a seaman eye-witness of its greatest victory has lain hidden in an old yellowed pamphlet in the College Library...
...German Navy consists of eiglu battleships: Braunschweig, Elsass, Hanover, Hessen, Schlesien, Schleswig-Holstein, Preussen, Lothringen; eight light cruisers: Nymphe, Medusa, Thetis, Amazone, Arkona, Hamburg, Berlin, Emden; one surveying vessel, Meteour; 32 destroyers and torpedo-boats ; no submarines. The strength of the Navy is governed by the Treaty of Versailles...
...that another craft just over the horizon will pick up the little clicking cries that tell the name of the disabled ship, the latitude and longitude of its position. Often the rescuer will arrive in time to save those who have been dropped over the side of the sinking vessel in bobbing lifeboats. Among them he probably will not find the wireless operator who has held to his post, exhausting every possibility of communication...