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Captain Jack Penson discussed the matter with Edward Jones of the British cruiser "Newcastle" and if the contest receives the approval of Coach Jim MacDonald and the officers of the British vessel, the battle will be held next week before the opening game with Tufts...
...year-old subjects of King George VI have been in the country for about a week and expect to remain three months longer while their ship, the cruiser "Newcastle" undergoes a complete overhauling in the Boston Navy Yard...
...English Channel during the fierce German air assault on Plymouth and brought down a total of 27 Luftwaffe planes. On a mission in the Mediterranean, the "Newcastle" and six other English vessels attacked an Italian flotilla of 21 ships which fled after the British had sunk a cruiser and a destroyer, suffering only five casualties themselves...
...entered Edajima Naval Academy. He worked hard enough to graduate second in his class, for which the Emperor gave him a pair of binoculars. His first cruise was to the U.S. His first gaff was in the Russo-Japanese War, when he joined the cruiser Saiyen as navigating officer and a few days later navigated her, despite the Imperial spyglasses, onto a mine. She sank, and most of the officers and crew with her. Nomura says of his survival: "Ship she go down; me I come up." The Navy made Navigator Nomura a diplomat. He served in Vienna and Berlin...
Most of these were transports, repair ships, tugs, minesweepers, net layers, but they included two battleships which had been placed in commission (the 35,000-ton North Carolina and Washington), one battleship (South Dakota) launched, keels laid for two more as well as for 14 cruisers, 18 submarines, two aircraft carriers, 57 destroyers. Launched were one cruiser, eight subs, eight destroyers...