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...commander could learn the unforgettable lessons of his first command. On each one of these pitching, rocking sea horses, bluejackets could learn the strange, good-humored, hell-for-leather technique and attitude of the destroyerman; young officers, at duties on deck and below, or hanging to the overhead in wardroom bull sessions, could become Navy-the good, hard...
Died. British Vice Admiral Humphrey Hugh Smith, 64, briny-tongued Distinguished Service medal winner, onetime captain of Greenwich's Royal Naval College, author of a slaphappy volume of wardroom anecdotes (An Admiral Never Forgets); in circumstances, according to the Admiralty, which arose "out of the various hazards of war not connected with any particular operation or ship...
...Wight lie the most famed yachting waters in the world. Here in a carefully marked out area of 24 sq. mi. were assembled 277 ships ranging from the world's greatest warship, the 42,000-ton battle cruiser Hood, to a proud delegation of British herring trawlers. Wardroom statisticians quickly figured that the 143 British warships in line alone displaced 670,000 tons, cost British taxpayers...
...necessity of bowdlerizing 'navy lingo into such terms as "simian-faced son of a spinster," or "blood-stained Bulgarians." Sailor Smith spent the War in "Trousers Pulling Down Contests" ("the officer whose brace buttons first touched the deck lost the contest") with his brother officers in the wardroom. Between times he commanded armed merchant cruisers, aircraft carriers. The War over, he hitched up his trousers and went ashore to preside over the Royal Naval College at Greenwich...
...Navy funds somewhere else if not to Hawaii. Only extra expense caused by the Presidential party is for food. That is defrayed by the President, out of his own pocket, at $1.50 a day for each member of his party, the price paid by every officer in the wardroom mess. The $25,000 White House travel fund will come into use when the President lands at Portland, starts back across the continent to Washington by special train...