Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lieutenant Commander William Clifford Barnes, who has held an assistant professorship in the Department of Naval Sciences and Tacties during the past year at the University, left yesterday to become navigating officer of the U. S. S. California, fleet flagship, now in Pacific waters...
While Commander Barnes was at the Naval War College, Admiral W. S. Pratt was president. Recently, Admiral Pratt was given command of the battle fleet, now on the Pacific, and shortly afterwards, Commander Barnes received orders to proceed to the West Coast to take a post as navigation officer under Admiral Pratt. He left yesterday for San Pedro, California...
...Commodore had sailed into Japanese waters with a U. S. fleet of four warboats; and a year later he returned to conclude the first treaty ever signed by a Japanese Government with an Occidental power. Prior to Perry's first visit the attitude of the Japanese Shoguns or Tycoons...
...stated, with justifiable complacency: "Shareholders of the White Star Line, who now number about 15,000, will have observed with interest and satisfaction that the results for the past year not only confirmed my forecast but showed it was more than justified. . . . After providing for the depreciation of the fleet and paying the dividend on the preference _ [preferred] shares, we recommend a dividend of 6% on ordinary [common] shares and balances carried foreward...
...loomed Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, still spruce at 67, who realized in 1917 the dream of Medieval Crusaders by capturing the Holy City of Jerusalem from Infidels who are still Infidels. Likewise among the twelve is Admiral Earl Jellicoe, trim and hearty at 68, who commanded the British Grand Fleet in the victorious though costly action at Jutland (1916) after which Ger mans did not again dispute the seas with Britons. The remaining Knights inducted, last week, were: General Sir Josceline Heneage Wodehouse, General Sir John Maxwell, Lieutenant General Sir Alfred Keogh, Admiral Sir Henry Bradwordine Jackson, Admiral Baron Wester...