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Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison last week announced the names of 23 U. S. warboats new-built and building. Battleships: Iowa and New Jersey. Cruisers: Cleveland and Columbia. Seaplane tenders: Casco and Mackinac. Submarines: Marlin, Grayling, Grenadier, Gudgeon, Mackerel, Gar, Grampus, Grayback. Repair ship: Vulcan. Destroyers (for Navy heroes): Woolsey, Ludlow, Wilkes, Nicholson, Ericsson, Ingraham, Edison (for Thomas Alva, the Acting Secretary's father), Swanson (for his predecessor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Names | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Pelorus Jack lived in Pelorus Sound, New Zealand. So great was his fame he is mentioned in Encyclopedia Britannica, which calls him "an individual . . . believed to have belonged to" the Grampus griseus species, Risso's dolphin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1932 | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...Grampus, who lived...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Feet of the Flig Are Peculiar | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. "Explorations of United States Fisheries Schooner 'Grampus' in Gulf Stream in 1908." Dr. H. B. Bigelow. Zoological Laboratory, 4th floor, Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar | 12/3/1908 | See Source »

...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. "Explorations of United States Fisheries Schooner 'Grampus' in Gulf Stream in 1908." Dr. H. B. Bigelow. Zoological Laboratory, 4th floor, Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar | 11/28/1908 | See Source »

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