Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...findings of fact and 36 statements of opinion, the Naval Court of Inquiry headed by Rear Admiral Hilary P. Jones last week summarized its investigation of the loss of the dirigible Shenandoah. Excerpts...
...While recognizing the propriety and necessity of the legally constituted authorities in the naval service being the sole judges of the sufficiency of the reasons actuating all orders to naval craft, and further recognizing that the practice of ordering movements of naval vessels for the purpose of complying with public requests is in accord with long-established custom, it is considered that such movements should be limited to essentially naval and military operations in so far as possible, especially in the case of new and experimental types...
...change resulting in a reduction of the number of gas valves was inadvisable. The initiation and urging of this change by the commanding officer of the Shenandoah, the recommendation for its approval by the commanding officer of the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, and its final approval as an experimental installation by direction of the Chief of Bureau of Aeronautics appear, in the light of subsequent events, to have been errors of judgment, but were arrived at after full and careful consideration by the most expert officers of the Navy in the operation and design of rigid airships...
...months ago two doughty Greeks took over the Government of the Hellenic Republic by a military-naval coup (TiME, July 6). They were General Pangalos and Admiral Hajikiriakos. They ousted the Cabinet of Premier Michalakopoulos; and General Pangalos be ame Premier and Minister of War, with Admiral Hajikiriakos as his Minister of Marine...
...veteran of both the Boer War and the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign of the World War, in the latter of which he was twice wounded. He was Chairman of the Labor Party in 1921, and Commander of the Royal Naval Voluntary Reserve in 1924. Since then he has served as Chancellor for Lancaster in the cabinet of Ramsay MacDonald...