Word: warship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...always refused to acknowledge the validity of a paper blockade. The German submarine blockade can never be anything but a paper blockade for the very nature of the submarine makes it impossible to surround England with a cordon of blockaders. The submarine is easy prey for a warship and hence it must keep on the move. And Germany, according to international law, has no right to forbid neutrals to trade with England until an actual blockade is established...
...army has a well-established, well-advertised training school in the Plattsburg military camps. The navy is to have a training cruise this year with the same purpose in view. Men who go on this cruise will be given a knowledge of routine duties and discipline on board a warship and have opportunity to take special courses of instruction as well. According to well-posted naval officers, a man who takes this course of training will be worth ten green men, and if he attends future courses of training and makes a study of naval matters, there is no more...
...cost of the kite balloon. The balloons which the Aircraft Company is now constructing are for the United States Navy and are made to be towed by a battleship at the rate of 25 miles an hour against a 15-mile wind. These balloons, attached to a warship, are of immense value, as it makes it possible to sight the enemy many miles away and direct the shell-fire of the battleship towards the right point. Every ship and battery abroad is being equipped with similar observation balloons. They take the place of the old spherical type whose continual swaying...