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...using the mails to defraud (TIME, June 11, 1923), in connection with selling stock in the Black Star Line-a steamship company, formed to carry Negroes back to Africa. The company's only significant maritime achievement was to take Garvey and some of his friends aboard a chartered vessel, to the West Indies and back, on an intoxicating journey during which, in some mysterious manner, the ship nearly foundered...
...earth-inductor type, was announced by the U. S. Bureau of Standards. It is said to possess many advantages over the usual magnetic type of ship's compass, which not only has to be corrected by sun and stars, but errs with the roll and pitch of the vessel. When, during a test, the ship's compass oscillated two degrees, the new instrument was found to be free from "roll and pitch errors." It also moved freely and without oscillation when a sudden change of course was made...
...created "a new type of submersible vessel designed to navigate under ice. This invention consists of a superstructure for a cargo-carrying vessel by which its navigator, upon encountering ice-covered or ice-filled waters, may submerge and run beneath the ice, then rise to the surface, breaking up the ice, and thus open a path for continued surface navigation...
Albany was celebrating the tercentenary of the first historic landing of the Dutch; Commander Lansdowne delivered a graceful message from President Coolidge to Governor Smith, then piloted his ship swiftly further up state. From the roofs of their office buildings, the excited citizens of Rochester and Buffalo greeted the vessel with shrill shoutings. To make the voyage still more memorable, Commander Lansdowne descended to an altitude of only 1,200 feet above Niagara Falls. The crew maintained they felt the spray, and for the first time the gigantic waterfall had a dirigible passing over...
...further premeditated test of the vessel's powers, another heavy fog was encountered on the way back over Trenton. The ship lost her bearings for a short time, sailed out some four miles to sea, but recovered her course shortly afterwards and reached Lakehurst in the early morning, having made a round trip of 1,000 miles in something under 24 hours...