Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Captain Jim Nathanson, the eight-man crew will sail one of the Naval Academy yawls in four races over a five-mile course on Chesapeake Bay. The regatta will be scored on a point basis with the cup going to the team that does best in all the races...
Ridgway's answer was the first time that a high military figure had questioned the new policy in public. But the Navy had stated its case in the March issue of its unofficial voice, United States Naval Institute Proceedings. The issue led off with an essay titled "The Great Debate: 1954," written by Commander Ralph E. Williams Jr., the department's star writer. The essay's theme: the "air-atomic concept" is wrong. "The ultimate weapon is the man, not the bomb...
Choice of Words. These were the latest incidents in a long and baffling epidemic of naval sabotage that has stirred up the British press, public and Parliament and embarrassed the Admiralty. The run of incidents stretches back to pre-Korean war days: sand slipped into lubricating systems and steering gear, wiring cut, gauges and indicators smashed, equipment and ammunition thrown overboard at sea. Early this year, a stoker on the light aircraft-carrier Ocean was caught and sentenced to 15 months for smashing pressure gauges, sight glasses, clocks, lights and other equipment. When H.M.S. Eagle, Britain's newest, biggest...
...Admiralty refuses to use the nasty word "sabotage" and calls the wrecking "malicious damage." In several of the incidents, no naval personnel were aboard ship when the damage was done, and the admirals first suspected an organized campaign to "lower the navy's efficiency" (which implies Communist sabotage). It discovered, however, that some of the acts had been committed by disgruntled young sailors fed up with crowded quarters and with life aboard modem warships...
Boarding the naval transport Les Eclaireurs one day last month, Argentine Minister of Marine Anibal O. Olivieri slipped out of the port of Bahia Blanca, bound for a quiet inspection of his country's Antarctic bases. The Buenos Aires em bassy of Great Britain, which has long claimed the area in which the Argentines have been setting up bases, was not caught napping. Les Eclaireurs was soon joined by Her Majesty's frigate St. Austell Bay, off Deception Island, 600 miles south of Cape Horn. Signaled St. Austell Bay to Les Eclaireurs'. "To the Argentine Naval Minister...