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Once an important industry was ship-building at Portsmouth. A ship under construction is the motif of the State seal. But because no ship has been built in New Hampshire since the War (and not because the barrels in the seal-picture contained rum) there is a persistent movement to change the seal to New Hampshire's famed "Old Man of the Mountains...
Breath-taking for any submariner is the first dive of a brand-new submarine. Last week the brand-new U. S. submarine V5, one of the two largest in the world, put out from Portsmouth Navy Yard for her first official depth trials. Aboard her were 95 officers and men. While the mine sweeper Falcon stood by, down went the V-5 off Boone Island, Maine, stayed 45 min., came up perfectly. Her instruments recorded a submersion of 332 ft., breaking the U. S. Navy's record (held by the V4) by 32 ft.* World's record...
Died. Jr. Lieut. Woodward Phelps, 28, married, son of Rear Admiral William Woodward Phelps who is Commandant of the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, N. H.; by his own hand (revolver) aboard the U. S. S. Northampton in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Three days prior his Annapolis roommate and cruisemate, Lieut.-Commander Benjamin F. Staud, had killed himself similarly off the China Coast...
...still a bachelor in spite of many reported engagements, he has retained yachting as his major hobby. As a boy of 12 he had spent his vacations knocking around the Ida Lewis lighthouse. In 1913 he sailed his yacht Vagrant from Portsmouth, Maine to Lisbon, Portugal in 23 days and won the King's Cup. He was Commodore of the New York Yacht Club for three years and served on a submarine chaser during the War. At all his amusements he works hard. He went into training last spring to be in shape to sail Enterprise. He smokes...
Died. Mrs. Helen Howell Garfield, 64, wife of James Rudolph Garfield of Cleveland who was Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior, daughter-in-law of the late President James Abram Garfield; as the result of injuries received when, motoring through Portsmouth, N. H., a tire of Mr. Garfield's car blew out and they hit a telegraph pole...