United States Naval Academy - Lucky Bag Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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Seamanship Department Sail ho! Where away? Dead ahead — and Seamanship looms up above the horizon in the form of the good book, the Admirable Knight. Many a time and oft we have had to picture red, green and white lights in a miscellaneous array, perpendicular and horizontal, neither and both, with and without. We have learned how to bring a schooner over the bar, weigh an anchor with a pair of scales, and how to make rope large enough for a belly -strap. Serious things aside. Seamanship has not been a source of much worry to us. The practical part of our career, aside from the fact of its appealing to us, must be acquired. Hence, what do? No one but a Midshipman knows. First Class Seamanship 91 exam: 47b. Give universal rule applicable to boats m under sail. Answer: Never spit to H wind ' ard!

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Ordnance Department Lieutenant Parker, during gun drill this summer: Aim at the horizon. Jew Clark: Which wire, horizontal or vertical? Jew Clark: Sir, you can ' t use a range finder in a fog, can you? Lieutenant Le Bourgeois: No, and a blind man can ' t use one either. Grant: Sir, why don ' t they make shells with two points instead of one? Lieutenant Soule: For the same reason, I guess, that they don ' t make them with holes in them so that there won ' t be any wind resistance. Lieutenant Le Bourgeois and Neilson on the practice cruise, discussing the gases generated upon explosion of powder in a gun chamber. Neilson: Conforms the Neilson : What gases are largest percentage, doesn ' t K Km formed when you smoke a Fat? Same lieutenant: I sup- pose tobac O . It, sir? ' Lieutenant Le Bourgeois: Yes. 15