Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fleet is, of course, legally free from molestation on the high seas, but the motorboats which bring the liquor cargoes ashore from vessels three miles out are subject to interruption. The present prohibition fleet is inadequate to cope with the numbers and speed of the motorboats which bring liquor in across the last three miles of open water. It is to intercept these craft that the former submarine chasers would be used...
...Miraflores locks are in ruins, the Gatun spillways are broken, Gatun Lake is drained, the Panama Canal is dry land once more, our fleet is divided and our Pacific Coast is at the mercy of the " Black" Navy. These are the hypothetical results of the battle maneuvers of our fleet in the Pacific. The United Stales fleet under command of Admiral Jones put the Canal defenses to the most severe test possible and discovered weakness. The story of the attack was this: The fleet divided into a "Blue" fleet defending the canal and a "Black" or "enemy" fleet attacking...
Following the successful attack of the Black fleet, Admiral Jones delivered a lecture in the ward room of the transport Henderson. His audience consisted of Secretary of the Navy Denby and the Congressional party which witnessed the maneuvers...
...from angles out of reach of the land guns. There should be several new batteries of 16-inch guns with a range equal to those mounted by any navy. Toboga Island, nine miles from the western entrance of the Canal, should be equipped with batteries to prevent an enemy fleet from approaching the Canal closely enough to bombard the Miraflores locks. There should be an adequate aeroplane force (100 or 150 planes) to drive off enemy bombers. The Navy should have light cruisers (of which it has none, although Great Britain has 60 and Japan approximately 30) to scout...
...Great Britain has been left far behind by France in the development of her air fleet," said Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for Air, to the British House of Commons. There are now 371 service planes owned by the British, while Prance has 1,260 machines in commission. The Secretary stated that, according to present programs, by 1925 France would have 2,187 military and naval airplanes while Great Britain would only have...