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Latest Marine Events in Pictures Clarence D. Chamber- lin and his plane on the runway built for his take-off from the Leviathan. Left to right Raymond Mach- lett; Capt.:- :Agis M. Moore, staff captain; and William Perrott, marine superintendent of the United States Lines W. S. Hovey, president, Fair- banks-Morse, builders of diesels Left—Drydock, 25,000 tons ca- pacity building at Hamburg, for French government for Bordeaux At Right and Below— Two flagships of the American navy, span- ning 113 years of his- tory, the U.S. S. Texas with Admiral Hughes on board, and the Niag- ara, Commodore Per- ry’s flagship at the battle of Lake Erie, War of 1812 Capts7P. 7k. Taylor, of M. S.. Tam pa, said: “I have sailed under sticks and , steam and I é have never seen a_ ship Above and Right—Nothing could better illus- trate the strides made by the genius of man in the art of naval construction. The Texas has blisters against torpedoes and deck armor for protection against bombs from the air which _ op- erates so easily” At Right—Old light- house at Cape Henry, Va., completed 1792. First lighthouse built by the United States At Left—Stern shoe of S. S. West Keene [hermit welded at Fed- eral S. B. & D. D. Co. MARINE REVIEW—October, 1927 31