Word: fleets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Supply ships (convoys), plying between fleet and bases, attended by "control" and "base force" squadrons...
Calculations. On a basis of 18 capital ships in the battle force outlined above, the present "absolute needs" for the rest of the fleet were calculated as follows...
...plenty of destroyers, though these are aging.† But the U. S. quite lacks destroyer leaders-big, beamy head-ships for the destroyer squadrons (18 strong), built heavier and steadier for observation purposes and so that they can keep up with the main fleet at top speed in dirty weather. The proposed aircraft carriers are limited by the Washington Treaty of 1922 to a maximum of 27,000 tons each, a minimum...
...year before had been revised only slightly since the Geneva Conference. It was characteristic of Admiral Hughes that he did not think to emphasize that point, to silence talk of "competition," that, when the Committee quizzed him, it was with misleading reluctance that he admitted the British fleet was the ultimate measure of the U. S. fleet...
...Another daughter of Hero Clark wedded Samuel Shelburne Robison, who, like Secretary Wilbur, was graduated at Annapolis four years after Admiral Hughes, in the class of 1888. In 1925, Admiral Hughes succeeded his comrade and friend, now Rear Admiral Robison, as Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Battle Fleet...