Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...properly constituted fleet consists of battleships, battle cruisers, cruisers, aircraft carriers, aircraft, destroyers, submarines, mine layers and auxiliaries...
...battleship is the element of ultimate force in the fleet, and all other elements are contributory to the fulfilment of its function as the final arbiter in sea warfare...
...Aviation has taken its place as an element of the fleet and cannot be separated from...
...Admiral was selected in 1918 to fulfill the baneful task of handing over the stricken Empire's fleet to the enemy. To men whose whole lives had been spent in the Navy, this meant great shame and dishonor. Most of the high naval officers sadly put their clothes away with moth balls and tried to forget their humiliation. Not so Horthy. Morning, noon and night, breakfast and dinner found him bedecked as an admiral. If he went shooting in the Royal Forest near Gödöllö, his uniform was with him; he took it off when...
...Next June, the U. S. Fleet is to hold maneuvers in Hawaiian waters, after which 12 battleships, 4 cruisers, 36 destroyers will journey to Samoa, New Zealand, Australia and back to Hawaii in a two month's cruise. (TIME...