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...Highland coast near Nigg last week heard the leashed rumble of heavy turbine engines coming near them off Cromarty Firth. Soon they saw looming out of the barley soup fog the towering grey flank of the world's biggest fighting ship, the $30,000,000 British battle cruiser Hood. What followed jolted the Highlanders out of their wits. The Hood's davits suddenly swung launches filled with marines over the side. The launches sped into shallow water. Holding their rifles high, the marines jumped into the surf, ran up the beach toward a party of British tars camped...
...heart of the Cuban crisis, presumably to command the U. S. naval demonstration already under way off Havana. Not stopping to read a newspaper Secretary Swanson motored to Annapolis, kissed his wife goodby, went speeding down Chesapeake Bay on the Navy's finest and newest heavy cruiser...
...over the spot where the Maine was sunk in Havana Harbor. At sight of the big grey man-o'-war excited Cubans along the waterfront began to shout: "Don't welcome these Americans! They've come to kill us." A white launch put out to the cruiser, carrying an Embassy secretary and the U. S. military attaché. They delivered a letter from Ambassador Welles advising Secretary Swanson not to come ashore, lest his presence stir angry demonstrations. The Cabinet officer stayed meekly on the cruiser. Two hours later the Indianapolis pulled up her hook, steamed...
...order government. While President Roosevelt was backing away from intervention diplomatically, his precautionary plans for military action went forward full blast. He did not intend to exert force but if he had to, he was going to be fully prepared to strike hard and fast. The light cruiser Richmond arrived off Havana from the Canal Zone. Aboard was square-jawed rear Admiral Charles S. Freeman, commander of the Special Service Squadron. Admiral Freeman, a quiet, cool-headed Pennsylvanian of 55, was put in charge of all naval vessels in Cuban waters. He went ashore at Havana, had his picture taken...
...that won the Schneider Cup from Italy in 1922, defended it suc- cessfully the next year. He happened into the motorboat building industry when he and his wife, Brenda Scott-Paine, almost as good a boat-driver as her husband, were planning a trip to Africa on their power cruiser. He went to a boat-works to buy new parts for their power cruiser, became so much interested that he bought the boat-works, canceled his trip. His British Power Boat Co. makes most of Europe's fastest speedboats, including the Miss England in which the late Sir Henry...