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The battleship "New York," one of the half dozen newest and biggest ships in the U. S. "billion dollar" navy

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The amateur sea dogs-civilians who turned their vacations to good account learning the rudiments of naval defense

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Queenstown, May 16, 1917: "A squadron of American destroyers has crost the Atlantic and is patrolling the seas in war service. One of the destroyers convoyed a liner thru the danger zone and another is said to have sunk a submarine"

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When the blue devil finds its mark. A frequently reported, but seldom photographed occurrence of the Great War. The ressel just torpedoed is sinking by the bow, its propeller already high out of the water. The last lifeboat is pulling away, tro men are still aiding down the ropes. The splash at the left of the photograph shows where one has just hit the water

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The U. S. superdreadnought "Arizona" mounts twelve 14-inch guns, twenty 5-inch guns and anti-aircraft ordnance

No wonder that it has ever been one

of young America's highest hopes to run away and join the Navy! Even the routine work on board a battleship looks like fun-here's evidence to prove it! and it is always seasoned by the zest of outdoor living and no lack of new adventures. Wouldn't you like to be one of the sailors, for in

stance, "hooking a ride" on Jack Tar's favorite elevator, the net of ship's supplies being swung on board by u big derrick? Perhaps grown-up "boys" aren't entirely past the pleasures of kite-flying, either, tho in this case they are putting up the kite for business reasons; it will furnish a target for the ship's anti-aircraft guns

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THE NAVY UNDER UNCLE SAM

The group of men on the bridge are in a strategic position to "see the world!" At the end of the bridge are electrically тапіриlated semaphore arms, fitted with red and white bulbs and used at night to send messages in the Morse code. There

couple of man-power semaphore arms that end of the bridge, too. Most seamen are taught both wig-wag and semaphore (wigwag is signaling with one flag and semaphore is with two)

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THE ATLANTIC

Don't try too hard to make out what letter

the man in the photograph above is sending it's probably just the upstroke of an "Attention" call. The sailors photographed on deck seem to be packing up their troubles -if they have anyalong with all their other luggage, to pass the rigid inspection of kits that limited space and much moving about make necessary

in the Navy. Don't you envy their emancipation from all the tedious details of traveling with a trunk?

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