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and proud of it's $50 years of service. Why, In its
"high traditions and honorable accomplishments"
there themes for thousand Navy Day ora
lions worthy the best efforts of the great and
eOquent-such themes as these:
The active hostties of 1775 that began the
Revolution found the Colonies without navy.
But we were a seafaring people fishermen,
traders shipbuiders, fighters Smarter sailors
never went down to the in ships. Colonial
cruisers were on the ocean. And from every
harbor went out privateers until all told we had
5000 men on the sea. 1t largely through them
that the Colonial armies were kept supplied with
the munitions of They captured 800 enemy
vessels. Their $4,000 prisoners included 500
soldiers of crack British regiments They even
carried the war to British home waters; John
Paul Jones in his cruises through the Irish sea
and the North sea humbled the pride of the "Mis-
tress of the Seas" in plain sight of England Ire
land and Scotland. They were so daring and so
successful that English merchants dared not ship
In English bottoms and the Thames was full of
French ships loading English freight. We lost
"a war vessels of 470 guns. The British lost 102
war vessels Of 1922 guns. Why, with all due
respect to Gen. George Washington and our French
allies the War of Independence was largely won
on the seal
The Revolution our independence from
Great Britain, but it required the War of 1912 to
wrest from the Mistress of the Seas" our 'inalien
able rights" on the high seas. 1t was the common
practice of British warships to impress men from
American crews English deserters" BY 1872
over 5000 cases of impressed American seamen
were registered at Washington Why this? Be
Americans were the smartest sailors afoat
and Britons could justly sing, Britannia Rules the
Waves" The United States navy consisted of II
ships of 1890 tonnage carrying 5O25 men and
442 guns Great Britain had 1048 ships of 86O99O
tonnage carrying 1852 men and 278OO guns
Nevertheless and notwithstanding America won
the War of 1812-and won it on the seas Our
contemplate little navy" captured more than
1900 vessels and more than 10000 seamen Our
warships outsaed, outmaneuvered and outfought
those OF the British In 10 engagements the
British suffered 10 defeats.
The 44-gun frigate Constitution-"Old Iron
sides"-won imperishable fame by her exploits
Perhaps she herself won the wal, by putting fresh
courage into American hearts when all was gloom
ashore. Anyway, she earned her place as an
American institution Today, 1913 years old, she is
to be restored for the third time-and by Amer
lean school childreni
All this, of course, is ancient history-ir these
days of Hands Across the Sea-" BLOOD is thicker
than water said Capt. Josiah Tattnall when he
violated our neutrality to go to the rescue of
Sir James Hope from the Chinese Sir Edward
Seymour stood by Dewey In Manila bay when the
American admiral said to the German admiral:
IF you want war, you have II now" In the
World War the American and British fleets were
as one Today our warships are returning from
a friendly visit to the British Antipodes
Other war glories galore mark the long service
OF the American Navy. In the naval war with