Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...campaign to secure undergraduates of the University for enlistment in the Naval Reserve will be launched this evening, when Lieutenant R. F. Bernard, U. S. N., will speak in the Trophy Room of the Union at 8 o'clock. Lieutenant Bernard, aided by members of the patrol boat and civilian cruise committees, will explain to all men interested in naval preparedness the organization of the patrol boat units, a branch of the service in the Naval Reserve especially organized for college men. The navy department, after the men volunteer for this work, will form them into units of five...
...increased value and activity of the submarine in modern naval warfare. Beginning with the efforts of a number of individuals who built a fast type of small cruiser for the destruction of submarines, the movement has been received most favorably and finally the Government has authorized the organizing of patrol boat squadrons along the Atlantic coast. A course is now being given at the Charlestown Navy Yard as a part of the instruction for admittance into the Naval Reserve to enable men to run one of these patrol boats in time of war. Since each boat has a crew...
...communication superintendent of the Charlestown Navy Yard, will outline the part played by the radio corps of the Naval Training Reserve in time of war. He will especially urge all men interested in wireless telegraphy to join the Naval Training Reserve at once, as all operators for the proposed patrol boats in case of war will be drawn from this body. An operator seeking such a position after war had begun would have to join the regular navy first. Captain H. G. Galler, United States radio inspector for the New England district, will also speak on the importance...
Continuing a plan initiated last year a patrol squadron, consisting of privately owned power boats of high speed armed with light guns of various calibre has been established in the Second Naval District for purposes of patroling and defence against submarines in time of war. The personnel of the boats is composed of such volunteers as may, because of nautical or wireless experience, be accepted as qualified for service...
...kind. Of these 15 have secured positions in the Aviation Corps, while 85 others have signed up for aeroplane work during the summer of 1917, under the guidance of the Government. The Naval Training Cruise contingent already numbers 60 and 27 men have applied for admission to the Naval Patrol. The balance are in various organizations of the militia, particularly in Battery A of the Massachusetts National Guard...