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Foamy bones in their fresh grey teeth, 90 U. S. men-o'-war rolled out of the sunswept Gulf of Gonaives last week, skirted the heat-hazy shores of Haiti, furrowed their way up toward the Atlantic Coast. Far out in the empty sea, bos'ns' whistles suddenly piped all hands to the rails. Drums ruffled, trumpets flourished and while junior officers manned bridges with stadimeters to keep the vast armada precisely in line, bands crashed out the national anthem. Twenty-one times gunners tripped the breech blocks of the 6-pounders. These lonely pomps were...
...having prettied up the trim Tabor-Boy, 18 Sea Scouts (none over 16 years) manned her for an eight-week cruise to the World's Fair. With Headmaster Lillard and Captain Lewis in command, the boys were assigned regular watches, holding all posts from able seaman up through bos'n and quartermaster to first mate. They sailed the Tabor-Boy down to New York, putt-putted up the Hudson to Albany where the 85-ft. masts were unstepped to clear the bridges along the canal to Buffalo and the Great Lakes. At ports of call along...
...Bos'n's Mate Deal detailed what he saw, heard and did from the moment the Akron cast off from Lakehurst at 7:30 p. m. April 3, bound for the New England coast. He related his last conversation with Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, the most distinguished victim of the disaster...
...hour before midnight the Akron was being buffeted severely by a thunderstorm. Bos'n's Mate Deal went about his business of taking ballast readings, carrying out ominous orders to shift ballast and fuel forward. At his next bit of testimony the committeemen hitched forward in their chairs...
When dovetailed with Bos'n's Mate Deal's story, the report of Lieut.-Commander Herbert Vincent Wiley was illuminating. Commander Wiley read his statement to the Committee in a detached, hesitant manner, as if the story were a new and strange one which he had never heard before. Bringing the now familiar events up to the fateful "00:30 [12:30 a. m.] 4, April," he read: "A very sharp gust struck the ship. It seemed to be much more severe than any I have ever experienced in that it was exerted so suddenly ... a maximum...