Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy Department received a telegram from Rear Admiral Sumner E. W. Kittelle, Commander of the Destroyer Squadron of the Battle Fleet: "Seven vessels landed on Pedernales Point [75 miles north of Santa Barbara]. Fuller, badly on rocks, listed 20 degrees starboard; Woodbury, same, listed 40 degrees port; Chauncey, high up inside rocks, and upright; Young, on beam end, three-quarters submerged; Delphy, on beam end, three-quarters submerged and broken in half: S. P. Lee, on beach under cliffs, listed 20 degrees port; Nicholas, broadside on beach, listed 20 degrees starboard...
...Italian naval squadron to be saluted by 21 guns at Piraeus. The Italian naval squadron to be accompanied by a French and a British warship to emphasize the consolidarity of the Great Powers...
...Commander, Captain Reginald Rowan Belknap, D.S.M., entered Annapolis in 1887. Since then he has seen service in the Spanish War, the Philippine Insurrection, the Boxer Rebellion, the European War (during which he commanded the American Mine-laying Squadron in the North Sea). Following the War he commanded the Delaware and more recently served on the staff of the Naval War College at Newport...
...name. The first Colorado was a 3,400-ton steam screw frigate, named after the Colorado River. During the Civil War she took part in the blockade first of the Gulf and later the Atlantic Coast, and served as flagship of the first division of the North Atlantic Squadron. She was sold in 1886. The second Colorado was an armored cruiser of 13,680 tons, launched in 1903. She served with the Atlantic Fleet, and later became flagship of the Pacific Reserve Fleet. She had been named after tne State of Colorado, but in 1916 was re-named Pueblo (after...
Leaving Hampton Roads. Va., at dawn, 16 large Martin bombers flew in war formation to Bangor, Me., covering the distance of 800 miles in eight and a half hours. At Mitchel Field, L. I., the armada was reinforced by a squadron of fast De Havilands and single-seater fighters. Fully armed and equipped, the Martin bombers each carried from three to five men, camp equipment from cots to typewriters, enough food to last four days. Sometimes the commander, Major John N. Reynolds, took his fleet in single file, sometimes in V formation so close together that the wing tips seemed...