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Going to Sea" in an Armory 



THE making of expert 

 signalmen no longer 

 begins at sea, but at our 

 naval training stations and 



in some of our armories. In the Second Bat- 

 talion Naval Militia, at Brooklyn, New York, 

 young men are turned into proficient signalmen 



long before they are 

 assigned to service on 

 a battleship. The ar- 

 mory has a signaling 

 equipment as com- 

 plete as that of a 

 modern man-of-war. 



Warships are great 

 talkers. There are 

 tiags and semaphores 

 for carrying on con- 

 \ersation by day, 

 Ardois lights, blink- 

 ers, searchlights and 

 rockets for night use, 

 code and distress sig- 

 nals for special pur- 

 poses, whistles and subma- 

 rine warning signals, and the 

 wireless telegraph. 



You have seen the sig- 

 nals sent out from the ends 

 the flying bridges by posts 

 arms that look like"jump- 



The semaphore 

 signaling device 

 which is found at 

 the end of each 

 big ship's bridge 



Students of the 

 Boys' High School, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y.. 

 practicing with a 

 big gun mounted 

 in the armory 



The interiors of the naval training 

 stations are made to resemble the 

 modem war vessel in design and 

 the intricate fighting equipment 



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