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...Binks is a florid, stocky oldster who has commanded White Star boats for ten years and became master of the Olympic in 1932 with a long clear record behind him. When the liner sidled up to a Manhattan pier last week with a few scratches on her huge prow, he was too tired and confused to give a rational explanation of his first tragedy...
...Chicago could swing her bow around again, a second ship, the British freighter Silver Palm, came plowing down on her out of the fog on the port side. The Chicago reversed engines, blared a long shrill collision call. The Silver Palm tried to stop. With a metallic crash her prow rammed 18 feet deep into the side of the Chicago just forward of the first gun turret. Two officers and a pay clerk were crushed to death. The Navy Department immediately ordered an investigation but could not find or identify the missing brown ship which had caused the accident...
...London Conference, who called some of them "tin clad" because their gun turrets were not fully protected with steel plates. But Rear Admiral Joseph K. Taussig, assistant chief of operations, last week explained that the Chicago's turrets were armored and had helped prevent the Chicago's prow from being cut clean off. "Not even a battleship has armor where the Chicago was struck, and would have experienced a similar result," he declared...
...William Woodward Phelps, his gold braid dulled, stood at attention. So did plump Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, and Mrs. James Roosevelt, the President's mother, and Ernest Lee Jahncke of New Orleans. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt's predecessor. High above them rose the knifelike prow of a 10,000-ton cruiser, her anchor ports swathed in damp bunting. The vessel did not budge. Under her steel flanks a workman hurt his ankle, was carried off. The band played "Over There." The boat still stood still. Then the band played "Anchors Aweigh." The cruiser began...
...Traveling to Newport News, Mrs. Hoover cracked a bottle of grapejuice over the prow of the Navy's newest aircraft carrier (13,500 tons with superstructure to starboard of landing table). Declared she: "I christen thee Ranger." Said she later: "I shall always have a soft spot in my heart for the Navy because its blue-jackets once saved the life of my husband and myself from Oriental bullets and knives...