Word: squadronal
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Admiral Cervera's fleet was somewhere in the Atlantic between Spain and America, and the Flying Squadron was formed to guard our Atlantic Coast. In 1891 Congress passed the Ocean Mail Act providing for a subsidy for fast vessels carrying the mails and suitable for naval auxiliaries. The American Line proposed to purchase two large British passenger vessels if it could obtain for them the American registry necessary to bring them to the terms of the Ocean Mail Act. By a special act of Congress this was permitted on condition that the American Line build, in American yards and according...
...Adriatic Sea, Captain C. P. Nelson, in command of two squadrons of thirty-six chasers, performed excellent service in strengthening the Otranto barrage at the entrance to that sea, and in operations in support of certain cruiser actions. In one of the latter, a dozen chasers gave splendid support to a combined British and Italian squadron of cruiser in the bombardment of Durazzo. During this action, the chasers not only effectively shielded the cruisers from submarine attack, but destroyed at least two submarines...
...mine field between Scotland and Norway, which was planned and executed under the direction of Admiral Sims. This barrage, stretching from the Orkney Islands to the coast of Norway, a distance of about 230 nautical miles, was handled entirely by Americans and laid by a squadron of United States merchant ships which had been converted into mine-layers, over 70,000 mines having been put out into the North Sea. This barrage was undoubtedly a contributory cause of the mutiny which demoralized the German fleet in the fall...
Ninety-Sixth Aero Squadron...
...Squadron...