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...ferry boat is the central design on a new crew ensign which will be submitted soon to members of John Winthrop House for approval. The field will be white, and of a triangular shape...
Three days' sailing away, lapping their grey noses in the yellow river off Shanghai's Bund, lay the Asiatic fleet's fighting strength. There, under Admiral Montgomery Meigs Taylor, were the cruiser Houston, ten destroyers and the yacht Isabel. The Navy's starry ensign also fluttered from the bows of seven gunboats patrolling the Yangtze River while off Nanking were three more U. S. destroyers. Meanwhile the Navy was busy elsewhere...
...mighty cheer from the ground crew. a noisy chorus of tooting horns from the automobiles on the hillsides as the Akron, unleashed for the first time, slowly rises as a free balloon, the blue flag of the Secretary of the Navy hanging from her control car, the U. S. ensign flapping at her stern. At about 500 ft. the two stern engines are started and the ship plows slowly into the west wind. Two more engines, then two more, until all eight Maybachs are driving the Akron over Portage Lakes and over the city of Akron where flowers are dropped...
Last week, however. Sir Thomas was a member. The Squadron's burgee flew from the Shamrock's truck and from the stern of his steam yacht Erin floated the White Ensign, a flag which only ships of the Royal Navy and yachts of the Royal Squadron may carry. But he did not set foot in the clubhouse last week or step on the sacred lawn. That was his rebuttal for the years that he had been denied membership...
...remains only 15% of the vessel that fought the Barbary pirates, defeated the Guerrière in 1812, earned the name of "Old Ironsides" from the way her planking withstood shot. When the Navy prepared to junk her in 1830, Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote his "Ay, Tear Her Tattered Ensign Down," caused her to be commissioned a second time in 1833. Her third reconstruction came...