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Common terms and phrasesAdmiral Dewey Admiral Fiske Aero Club aeronautics aeroplanes afternoon afterward aid for operations American American Defense Society anchor apparatus army and navy ashore asked battle beautiful boat Bureau of Navigation Bureau of Ordnance called captain chief command Company cruise deck dinner duty electric engine fact fight Filipino finally fire fleet German German Navy gunnery guns Hampton Roads Hong-Kong idea instrument invention knew letter Lieutenant looked Manila Manila Bay ment Monadnock months morning Naval Institute naval officers Navy Department navy-yard never night o'clock patent Petrel port range finder range-finder realized Rear-Admiral received San Francisco Secretary seemed sent ship shore Shortly side signal soon Spanish stadimeter steam submarine target practice telescope sight Tennessee thing thought tion told took torpedo torpedoplane trip turret United Washington yards York Yorktown Popular passagesPage 570 - All orders issued by the Chief of Naval Operations in performing the duties assigned him shall be performed under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and his orders shall be considered as emanating from the Secretary, and shall have full force and effect as such. To assist the... Page 589 - Operations * * * who shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, be charged with the operations of the fleet and with the preparation and readiness of plans for its use in war. Page 667 - Creasy to select for military description those few battles of which, in the words of Hnllam, ' a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes. Page 570 - The Chief of Naval Operations, while so serving as such Chief of Naval Operations, shall have the rank and title of admiral, to take rank next after the Admiral of the Navy. Page 31 - The mind is its own place, and of itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. Page 242 - As few lamps as possible were lit, and all lights which would shine outward were screened, except one small light over the stern of each ship. The night was clear and calm, and the hours from eight to twelve rather dragged. There was nothing to do, for all preparations had been made; there was nothing to see except the dim outlines of a few ships and the vague outline of the coast two or three miles distant; and there was nothing to hear except the sound of the engine and the swish of the water along... Page 455 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. Page 671 - ... it constitutes a continuing menace, from which an attack of some kind may he expected at any time. For this reason, no mere subsidence of submarine activities should blind us to a desirability of sinking or disabling the German fleet. Germany's entire fleet is concentrated in the region of Kiel and Wilhelmshaven. All her naval eggs are in one basket, and those eggs are vitally essential to her existence as a nation. It is my profound conviction that we can smash those eggs by torpedoplane and... Page 441 - Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land... Page 253 - Petrel pass inside." This signal was shortly followed by another to us to burn the Spanish ships. During the time of the withdrawal of the American fleet the Spaniards had run their ships as close in as the depth of water permitted and abandoned them. We supposed, of course, that they had laid trains to their magazines, so that the task of burning them would be by no means a safe one. The Captain at once told the executive officer, Hughes, to go and burn them, and called for volunteers. The call... References from web pagesFROM MIDSHIPMAN TO REAR ADMIRAL; FROM MIDSHIPMAN TO REAR ADMIRAL ... JSTOR: From Midshipman to Rear-Admiral From Midshipman to Rear-Admiral (work by Fiske) -- Britannica ... Johnson Howeth: Chapter II (1963) Dirk Bönker | Admiration, Enmity, and Cooperation: us Navalism and ... ВОЕННАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА -- Военная мысль -- Ропп Т. Создание ... Gerry Kleier Books at antiqbook.com Bibliographic information
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