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...MacMillan will make his annual skirt of Labrador and Baffin Land, this time with a flotilla of three boats. Antarctica. A tourist trip to Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's Little America last Antarctic summer was abandoned, may occur next December. Last season Consul Lars Christensen, Norwegian whaling tycoon, steamed completely around the Antarctic Continent, looking out for whale feeding grounds and spotting a few landmarks. Sir Douglas Mawson, the Australian, spotted a few more. Africa- On Jan. 27, 1863 the late David Livingstone took a sheet of blue foolscap* and wrote to "His Excellency the Governor of the Cape...
...could not be determined whether both the first and second Union Boat Club eights would join the University 150-pound navy in a race over the Henley distance in the Basin this afternoon, it is assumed by the coaches of the respective armadas that they would. The lightweight flotilla, which has been given light workouts during the first part of the week, is schedules to contend over the Henley tomorrow, in its last time-trial of the week. A recent shake-up has relegated John Wiggins, '33, and C. C. Campbell '33 to the second boat, with...
Forming the largest flotilla of manned shells ever put on the water by one college, 30 Harvard eights will be boated this afternoon at 2.15 o'clock. This unusual display is being made at the request of sound moving picture concerns and Boston photographers...
...States Navy and later followed by the French-namely, turbo-electric drive. "Steam from her 30 boilers will drive turbines directly coupled to electric generators. Electric motors supplied with current from the generators will drive her four propeller shafts. . . . Similar equipment is used on the French Navy's flotilla leader Verdun, the first warship ever to attain a speed of 40 knots. . . ." Contract speed of the new French liner is 30 knots, but contract speeds are always exceeded by two or three knots. Cost: $27,500,000 to $30,000,000 depending on the final scheme of decoration which...
...command), 24 hours late, on New Year's day, giving her a very short period in which to coal, ammunition, clean and paint ship before sailing for the Caribbean. No week-end leave was given. Sailors feared that their regular "Christmas leave," already reduced in the submarine flotilla from 15 to 13 days, would be abolished. Sunday morning a detail was piped on deck to finish painting ship...