Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Nine Business School men have already been detailed to six of the supply bases formed for the patrol boat squadron. They will be commissioned as ensigns...
George F. Baker '99, commodore of the New York Yacht Club, is converting his yacht into a coast patrol boat and has enrolled a complement composed entirely of graduates and undergraduates of the University...
...vessel which has been renamed the "Harvard" is 240 feet long and has a speed of about 20 knots. She will carry two two-pound guns, two one-pound guns, and a three-inch gun, and will patrol the coast, 150 miles out, from Barnegat, N. J., to Montauk Point, Long Island, N. Y. The undergraduate portion of the "Harvard's" complement will be composed of the following men: J. A. Burden '20, Russell Cobb '19, Haley Fiske '19, O. F. Flynn '19, L. K. Garrison '19, J. L. Leighton '19, E. S. Sherman '19, P. E. Stevenson...
...resources are not being used to the best advantage when men who might make good officers enlist as privates, where they serve no greater purpose than other men without the qualifications of leadership. Nor is it conservation of resources when good landsmen from the inland country volunteer for patrol boat work because they have always had a vague yearning towards the sea; and when men who can walk with equilibrium essay to fly. It does the nation small good to grow seasick for patriotism, or to wreck a delicate machine with unskilled, though ready loyalty. The nation needs sailors...
Work on the coast patrol has been progressing rapidly, however, as in addition to a flotilla of high speed, light draft submarine chasers, which will be completed in five months, a large number of privately-owned boats have been offered to the Government, and the 10,000 men needed for this work are rapidly being secured. The present shortage men in the navy...