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Stand By tells the adventures of a patched-up 26-year-old four-stacker in the Pacific. The story is given a piquant twist by the fact that the destroyer goes into its big battle with a maternity ward below decks-survivors of a torpedoed ship. While infants wail and the ship's carpenter does his best to midwife a new baby, the destroyer drives in on a Jap battleship and, with a display of fireworks which alone is worth the price of admission, sinks...
Daniel Armstrong grew up around the Hampton campus, graduated from Annapolis, spent most of World War I on a destroyer, was acting commander of a pitching four-stacker when he left the Navy in 1919 to enter business. He was a petroleum company executive when the Navy recalled him two years ago as an administrator and idea man. He originated the Navy E (for excellence) program for industry, then moved on to Great Lakes...
...single-stacker Rio Tercero had been churning homeward 120 miles off New York. She was torpedoed without warning, her name, home port and Argentina's colors plainly visible in the early-morning light. Four sailors were killed; another drowned later. The Rio Tercero's captain said the submarine had had the name Innsbruck and a porcupine painted on its conning tower...
They put him on the Reuben James. She was one of the old four-stacker crack-erboxes that were finished too late for the other war; she was two years older than he, and shrewish in a choppy sea. But he got to like her, learned to refer to her as Rube and developed a heap of respect for the commanding officer, Lieut. Commander Heywood L. Edwards. That name Heywood did not mean a thing: it was better to call him Tex and pay heed to his calm voice: he was six feet two and used to be an Olympic...
...Great Britain in 1919. Completed in 1921, she went into service for the White Star Line as the Majestic. From then until the launching of the Normandie last year, she was the largest ship afloat, though the 907-ft. Leviathan made similar claims. In 1923 the bulky three-stacker momentarily snatched the transatlantic speed record from the Mauretania (now also junked) by crossing in 5 days...