Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...constructed (England has 60 cruisers faster than any vessel in our navy, except destroyers, and Japan 30, completed or now being built), from nine to 20 submarines and two aeroplane carriers. We need a greater navy personnel. This last need was forcibly demonstrated when in order to send our fleet south for its spring maneuvers, it was necessary to order to the ships apprentice classes, whose schooling was not yet completed...
...general plans of the Navy for developing its fleet bases was made public. A board on "shore establishments," of which Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman is the head, has drawn up a program for developing two naval bases on the Pacific Coast, two on the Atlantic, one at Panama, one at Hawaii...
...four continental naval bases are to be situated at San Francisco, Puget Sound, New York, and Chesapeake Bay. They will be developed for strategic reasons, in the order named. Each of the four is to be made capable of serving the entire fleet in all respects. The Navy will thus have four interchangeable bases from which to operate, and in the event of the capture or destruction of one will always have another on the same coast to which the fleet may retire...
Theoretically the best sailor of them all should be the head of the Navy Department. Secretary Denby proved himself at least as good as any. When the transport on which he was traveling to the fleet maneuvers met a heavy storm off Hatter as, the Secretary stuck to the bridge...
...Panama Canal had its greatest week of business?168 vessels passed through. Eighty-one of these belonged to the United States fleet...