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...treaty-bound U. S. Navy cannot start building another battleship before 1936. Its new 10,000-ton cruisers with 8-in. guns-light, swift, hard-hitting war machines-are the pride of its modern fleet. In the last 30 months eight of these vessels (Salt Lake City, Pensacola, Chicago, Augusta, Northampton, Chester, Houston and Louisville) have been commissioned. Seven more (New Orleans, San Francisco, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Portland, Astoria, and Tuscaloosa) are abuilding. Three others are still in blue prints...
...Yawuz Sultan Selim slid down the ways of the Hamburg ship- builders Blohm & Voss (builders of the Europa) as the German battle cruiser Goeben. ?Speedy, heavily armored, with innumerable watertight compartments, she was as far ahead of her time as Germany's latest 1931 warship, the pocket battleship Deutschland. At the beginning of the War she slipped through the British and French Mediterranean squadrons to Constantinople, where she was nominally attached to the Turkish Navy as the Sultan Selim...
...Shine, The Temple Tower). The third day out the Taylor was to be relieved by the Dupont from Guantanamo. A miniature presidential review was arranged. For nearly an hour the President, Capt. Freeman and the Arizona's crew stood at the rail awaiting the Dupont which had miscalculated the battleship's position. When the Dupont did not arrive, as a substitute diversion Capt. Freeman sent his crew into the rigging to perform tricks, led them in three big cheers for their Commander-in-Chief...
...Southern Revolution" at Arequipa (TIME, March 2). No. 2 was the "Naval Coup," when transports loaded with troops to quell the "Southern Revolution" were held up by their battleship escorts and President Sanchez Cerro was forced by navy officers to resign (TIME, March 9). No. 3 last week was the "Military Coup...
...Balboa lay the Blue defensive squadron under Vice Admiral Arthur Lee Willard aboard the Arkansas, only battleship in the line. To him had been assigned seven light cruisers, 22 destroyers, the giant aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga, a flock of submarines, the dirigible Los Angeles (used for the first time by international consent in war games). To drive the Black fleet back from a 1,000-mile jungle-fringed coast line Admiral Willard relied chiefly on a force of 225 battle planes...