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Even as Seawolf and Skate settled into their berths they were surrounded by signs of the Navy's growing nuclear potential. At the General Dynamics Electric Boat Division, the Navy launched Skipjack, the U.S.'s fifth nuclear submarine, a $60 million model with a special shark shape designed for high-speed underwater maneuverability. Abuilding on the ways was Triton, a giant-sized double-reactor, radar-picket submarine, biggest submarine ever built. Beyond that the Navy last week laid the keel of its third nuclear submarine designed specifically for mating in 1959-60 to the much-talked-about Polaris...
...names. Although they were not looking for rarities, about 10% of their 550 species proved to be new. They were stung by urchins, morays, anemones, stingrays and stinging worms. Their hands, cut by barnacles, became first a welter of sores and then horny-callused. They caught and ate tuna, skipjack and sierra, tried unsuccessfully to eat a turtle; they drank beer and whiskey; they bathed by jumping over the side; they had a wonderful time...
Past such colorful names as Skipjack, Puffin, Foxhound, Esk, Fearless, Wild Swanand Escapade the royal flotilla passed, with each ship, swathed in flags, banging out a 21-gun salute, her crew hand in hand, lining the rails...
...water is perfectly still. The Harvard launch came down to the lower end of the course this evening, leaving the crew at work above. The course has not yet been wholly flagged as the parties who are to place the stakes, and the colors are not ready. Steamer Skipjack has all the material aboard for marking the half miles of the course, and will do the work tomorrow. The rest today will be beneficial to the crews, so when the course is flagged it is likely that both eights will be anxious to go over the full four miles...
...five o'clock Friday afternoon the freshman crew in charge of Coach Parker arrived at the boat house on board the Skipjack. All hands look fresh and ready to do the best kind of work. The crew is to use the '93 class boat. The new paper boat made by Waters is about useless, and this one is not much better, though the '93 crew used it only this year. Parker tried his men for a few minutes after supper in order to try the rigging. At present the crew is made up in the following order: Stroke. Glidden...