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...Adjusting lifebelts, we stepped out in the inky blackness of the quarterdeck and raced toward the bridge. We had barely started when the first torpedo smashed into the after port side with a burst of flame, heavily rocking the Galatea. . . ." After two more torpedoes had struck the Galatea...
Author Berry believes that Bowditch was "not particularly democratic," charges him with having a "quarterdeck attitude toward the common people." Sailors, with less literary standards of democracy, apparently felt otherwise. "As the word of [Bowditch's] death spread from harbor to harbor around the world the flags of ships were lowered to half mast...
...same Jerry Land who was head of the Navy's Bureau of Construction and Repair, who could fly his own airplane, who was a field official at two or three big-league football games each season (as he still is), the little man with the quarterdeck voice whom sailormen called "the busiest guy in the Navy." How could he retire? He hadn't retired. Few days later he was on the new Commission, year later its boss...
...battleships Arkansas and New York, cruisers Quincy, Tuscaloosa, Wichita, Vincennes. After 25 days at sea they had the bare rudiments of navigation, gunnery, communications and seamanship, had also learned how to scrub their clothes white, how to face aft when they came over the side and salute the quarterdeck (where in early navies the ships carried their shrines and pagan altars). Rest of the education is being provided this winter and spring in three-month classes at Annapolis, Northwestern University and on the hulk of the old battleship Illinois, now the Prairie State, tied up in the Hudson...
...gilded barge pulled out, with the Governor himself aboard. Upshot was that President Fillmore's letter was delivered, Perry sailed away, went back after six months, and negotiated the first U. S.-Japanese trade treaty. Negotiations culminated in a grand feast and bottle party on Mississippi's quarterdeck. Just before he passed out, the Japanese High Commissioner flung his arms around a captain's neck and declared through happy tears: "Nippon and America, all same heart." For the next 77 years-until 1931-the U. S.-Japanese heart beat warmly. The two collaborated in opening China...