Identifier: cinderellasoffle00nutt (find matches)
Title: Cinderellas of the fleet
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Nutting, William Washburn, 1884-1924
Subjects: Submarine chasers World War, 1914-1918--Naval operations--Submarine
Publisher: Jersey City, N.J. : Standard Motor Construction Co.
Contributing Library: Virginia Beach Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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nce inthe negro republic was probably the most interesting of all. Ourmarines had made many improvements in the few years of their stay.Port au Prince, the capital, had been cleaned up, roads built, policeforces established, but the bulk of the population, particularly outsideof the city, lived as their ancestors had lived in Africa. To the blasetourist I recommend Haiti, for there can he find the typical palm-bordered shore of the tropics, the heat-ridden plains of India, and themountainous beauties of our own country. Adventure awaits him aswell, for few white men have been able to explore the interior alone. In Haiti our wanderings ceased, for after six weeks stay therethree of us proceeded to New Orleans for repairs, arriving on April 2.And it was there, in a home port, I left the 2.53. I took her over andI had the satisfaction of bringing her back. Perhaps her journeysare not ended, but at least her war-time cliajiter has Ijeen written tocompletion 94 THE CINDERELLAS OF THE FLEET
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i^ ClIAlTILK \!l THE OTKAXlO J.AKRACE IT was in order to bottle u\) the sulmiarine l)ases of the AustrianCoast that a cord(,)n of vessels was thrown across the neck of theAdriatic from the heel of Italy to the Islanrl of Corfu. Thissection, patrolled as it was continuously l)y several lines of vessels,was known as the Otranto Barrage, and I think the American Sub-marine Chasers deserve most of the credit for making it so efficientthat submarine troubles in the )\Ie(literranean were practically elimi-nated. The work of the Chasers on the Otranto Barrage is characteris-tic of that done by our little vessels abroad. The duties were muchlike those of the S. C.s working out of Plymouth, England, and theFrench ports and the story which follows gives a graphic account ofthis particular phase of our activities. Lieut. Walter P. Groszman.U. S. N. R. F., told me the story, and here it is as it was w^ritten byhim for Motor Boat: It was at Ponta Delgada, on Sunday, May 5, 1918, that our bluftskip

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