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...treaty-bound U. S. Navy cannot start building another battleship before 1936. Its new 10,000-ton cruisers with 8-in. guns-light, swift, hard-hitting war machines-are the pride of its modern fleet. In the last 30 months eight of these vessels (Salt Lake City, Pensacola, Chicago, Augusta, Northampton, Chester, Houston and Louisville) have been commissioned. Seven more (New Orleans, San Francisco, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Portland, Astoria, and Tuscaloosa) are abuilding. Three others are still in blue prints...
Into drydock had gone the Pensacola at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Northampton at Norfolk. Bilge keels were doubled; anti-roll tanks were installed; the low centre of gravity was raised. If upon sea tests the roll is longer, smoother, more calculable, the same improvements will be made on the other six cruisers. Alteration costs: $100,000 per ship...
Students successfully completing this course are ordered immediately to the Naval Air Station. Pensacola, Florida, where they are given the full nine to ten month advanced aviation course with the Regular service. This course includes training in all service type planes, and in both land and sea planes. Candidates who complete this course are designated Naval Aviators, given their "wings", commissioned Second Lieutenants in the Marine Corps Reserve, and ordered to one year's active duty with the Regular Marine Corps at Quantico, Va., or San Diego...
...positive side Mr. Hoover ordered the U. S. S. Pensacola, potent and up-to-date cruiser of 10,000 tons, to steam to the U. S. Naval station at Guantanamo, Cuba. "Guantanamo," announced the State Department, "is three days less steaming distance to Brazil than Hampton Roads. . . . In view of the uncertainty as to the future situation in Brazil it has been felt prudent to have a ship nearer the zone of disturbance to take off American refugees should such action be necessary for the protection of their lives...
Should U. S. refugees have to be evacuated from Rio de Janeiro it would take the Pensacola steaming at her terrific cruiser speed of 33 knots four days to reach them from Guantanamo...