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Eight Harvard men, students in Naval Science 2, will leave tomorrow on a five-day cruise on the battleship Utah, which is sailing to Rockland, Maine, for her engineering trials...
Commander Grady discussed the technique of the navy, showing the importance of the cruiser and the battleship and indicating their relative speeds in comparison with that of the submarine. He gave a brilliant description of the battle of Jutland and the flight of the Germans, drawing from the struggle an example of the necessity of preparedness. "In view of these conditions," Commander Grady stated in closing, "no one should view with apprehension the spending of money on the proposed program...
...battle force, massed inside the cruiser screen by divisions, each battleship attended by a school of destroyers and submarines...
...total of 43 cruisers. The U. S. Navy already has 18 cruisers. The first item on the Navy's shopping list was therefore 25 cruisers.* The other proposed additions were: 9 destroyer leaders, 32 submarines, 5 aircraft carriers. Calculations for these added auxiliaries were evolved on the 18-battleship scale and also with the idea of properly equipping the two outer zones of U. S. defense-Hawaii and Panama. As the result of her Allied building program during the War, the U. S. has plenty of destroyers, though these are aging.† But the U. S. quite lacks destroyer...
...Maine, according to the itinerary as announced yesterday by Commander R. C. Grady, U. S. N., Professor of Naval Science. Probably about 40 members of the University unit will be on board in addition to detachments from Yale, Northwestern, and Georgia Tech. The trip will be made on the battleship Wyoming, the flagship of the U. S. Scouting Force...