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...electrocuted while working near high voltage wires in the darkness. Also in the darkness the cruiser Milwaukee had collided with the destroyer Simpson, smashing in the latter's bow and sending her to drydock. And while the fighting was fiercest, Captain William Woods Smyth, commanding the battleship Tennessee, had died of a sinus infection on the hospital ship Relief. Significance- Naval maneuvers have a way of firing the imagination of otherwise level-headed journalists and Exercise M proved to be no exception. "The most impressive and important maneuvers ever conducted by the U. S. battle fleet," breathlessly reported...
...fleet of almost any second class power could have come dangerously close to capturing the Philippines last week. All of the fighting force that remained at Cavite, base of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet, were four tenders, twelve submarines, three destroyers up in drydock for overhauling, mine sweepers and auxiliary craft...
...Into drydock had gone the Pensacola at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Northampton at Norfolk. Bilge keels were doubled; anti-roll tanks were installed; the low centre of gravity was raised. If upon sea tests the roll is longer, smoother, more calculable, the same improvements will be made on the other six cruisers. Alteration costs: $100,000 per ship...
Flying the President's flag (U. S. eagle-&-shield with four white stars on a blue field) from her main truck, the 31,000-ton dreadnaught nosed out into the Atlantic for her first "shakedown" run after two years in drydock being reconditioned. The cocky little destroyer Taylor served as escort. President Hoover had smooth sailing southeastward for four days. He took long naps morning and afternoon, lounged before a wood fire. On deck he played medicine ball, losing one ball overboard. After dinner (for which he dressed) an orchestra played softly, he attended talking cinema shows (Rain or Shine...
Mass. (TIME, Dec. 16), "as is and where is in damaged condition on drydock at . . . Brooklyn...