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Strategical importance of our naval stations
Strategical importance of our naval stations Author:John Richard Edwards Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: VI, PREFACE. [Reprinted from the Engineering Magazine for November, 1915.] Rear Admiral John R. Edwards, United States Navy (retired), graduated from t... more »he United States Naval Academy (engineering course) in 1874. He served 16 years at sea in the engineering department of various naval vessels. His shore service has been exceedingly varied and includes a three-years' tour of duty at the University of South Carolina as professor of mechanical engineering. While on duty at this institution he pursued the law course, and in 1891 was admitted to practice before the supreme court of that State. For six years served in the Navy Department as an assistant to the late Admiral Melville; for four years he was head of the machinery department of the Portsmouth (N. H.) Navy Yard; performed three years' duty as inspector of naval machinery at the Cramp ship- 37ard; served for one year as general inspector of all naval machinery building at the commercial shipyards on the Atlantic coast, and for two years was president of the Board of Inspection for Shore Stations. His last detail was that of commandant of the Charleston (S. C.) Navy Yard. From 1901 to 1904 he was senior member of the Naval Liquid Fuel Board, the report of which board was declared to be one of the most valuable scientific publications ever issued by the Government. In 1912 he was appointed by President Taft and served as chairman of the American delegation to the London International Radiotelegraphic Conference. He has made a special and extended study of the question of naval development and policy. 3 THE INDUSTRIAL AND STRATEGICAL IMPORTANCE OF OUR NAVAL STATIONS. By Rear Admiral John R. Edwaeds, U. S. Navy (retired). IN TRODUCTORY. If the United States should become involved in war with a formidable nav...« less