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With no smokestacks, the Bainbridge looks more like a sleek runabout than a warship. Oil-fueled destroyers are soon coated above and below deck with grease and grime, but the Bainbridge is as clean as an operating room. White linen curtains flutter at the portholes in the wardroom. The cabin for visiting admirals is decorated with artificial yellow roses. Contemporary paintings, presents from the Bethlehem Steel Co.. which built the ship, hang in the ship's cabins and wardrooms...
Russian-supplied MIG jet fighters zoomed low over Djkarta last week as Indonesia's military might assembled for Armed Forces Day. In the harbor below steamed Indonesia's newest warship, the Russian-built cruiser Irian. Through the streets drove marines in Soviet amphibious troop carriers and a battery of Russian-made ground-to-air missiles. An ironic counterpoint was provided by a youth brigade carrying bamboo spears...
...running. Playwright Paul Green retells the story of the small group of settlers on Roanoke Island who dis appeared from history in 1587. The play delivers the infant Virginia Dare, also delivers some tentative speculation on what happened to the settlers: forced to choose between surrender to a Spanish warship and taking their chances elsewhere in the unknown country, they elect the footpath in the wilderness that will lead to freedom, or death...
With reference to your [phrase] "the famed Canadian subchaser known as the corvette," I would point out that this class of warship has had an honourable history in the navies of Europe long antedating the settlement of Canada or indeed the questionable activities of John Paul Jones either against Scotland or for Russia...
Like a person, a warship ages and must from time to time have major overhaul. Constellation like Constitution has had several. Some people have claimed that in one of these during the 18503, Constellation was scrapped and a new ship built. Extensive research made when Franklin D. Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy nearly half a century ago demonstrated that this historic ship is as near the original as any ship of her age can be expected to be. I quote from his communication of July...