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...there will be a pair of huge dam gates that will reveal, when opened, a great rectangular chasm, 125 ft. wide and running almost the entire length of the craft, into which disabled ships will be pushed at sea. When an ailing battleship is brought into position before the ARD-3, the dock's great bottom tanks will be pumped full of water to sink its keel below that of the battleship...
When this is accomplished the cripple will be moved forward into the spacious midsection of the ARD-3. The water will then be pumped out of the bottom tanks and the ARD3 will rise, lifting the damaged battleship high and dry so that repairmen can get at its vital parts. The ARD3 will t»e so big that it can take care of anything the U. S. Navy now has afloat, and almost anything smaller than the Queen Mary that it is likely to launch...
...Navy Department bases its predictions of success for the ARD-3, which will cost about twice as much as a stationary drydock, on its experience with the ARD-1, a small experimental craft of some similar design, which it has been trying out for two years on small destroyers and submarines. When bids are opened this week for the construction of the ARD-3, shipbuilders will be preparing bids for the building of the ARD-2, a sister dock of the experimental ARD-1, which is 446 ft. long. The ARD3 is intended for use in the Pacific and will...
...best yachtsman the nation ever had for President put out from Pulpit Harbor, Me. early last week with Sons James, John and Franklin Jr. for shipmates, a crew of two. "I haven't the faintest idea where I'm going, except to work to the east'ard," he told newshawks before casting off. "I'm just going to loaf and have a good time...
Accepting a medal inscribed "Dick Byrd, Gallant Gentleman" from Colonel Henry Breckinridge, Rear Admiral Rich ard Evelyn Byrd told 600 banqueters in Manhattan his future plans. Recalling the six months when he "lay on the edge of life" alone in Antarctic Advance Base, the greying explorer read from the diary he kept there: " 'From here the great folly of all follies is the amazing attitude of civilized nations toward each other. . . . If this attitude is not changed, I don't see how our civilization, as we know it, will survive. ... I feel this so keenly that...