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...Spain. At 11:35 a. m. Admiral Bailey, as Commander of the Squadron, ordered from his flagship, the Hood, what the court martial referred to as an "inclination exercise." The ships were to swing together to form a single line of battle, and from the Hood's chartroom Admiral Bailey himself set the course for both ships: 254 degrees for the Hood, 192 degrees for the Renown. Apparently he thought that without further orders the Hood would swing into the "projected course" and the Renown would drop into line behind her. Instead both captains kept their ships doggedly...
...completed plans for the John Murray Expedition. Last August the Mabahiss, 140-ft. trawler lent by the Egyptian Government, nosed out of an Alexandria dock, slipped through the Suez Canal, down the length of the Red Sea, finally emerged into the Indian Ocean. An echo-recording apparatus in the chartroom measured the time required for the sound to bounce back from the sea floor. With echo-sounding gear Expedition Leader R. B. Seymour Sewell and his staff systematically charted the ocean floor. In the Gulf of Aden they found ten ranges of theretofore unknown submarine hills. On the bottom...