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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
AND REMINDER 
Vol. XIV 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, May 19 
No. 20 
North Shore Aviation Unit 
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Godfrey L. Cabot of Beverly Farms, who is Forming One, Tells of What He Hopes to See Accomplished 
GODFREY bo-CABOT, 
who is taking a great in- 
terest in preparedness, espe- 
cially the aviation problem 
and who, as president of the 
Aero Club of New England, 
was largely instrumental in 
having the State of Massa- 
chusetts undertake to mat- 
tain an aeroplane provided 
that the club secured enough 
public subscriptions for its 
purchase, is preparing to start 
an aviation corps on. the 
Worth Shore. Mr. Cabot, 
whose summer home is at 
Beverly Farms, has leased Gooseberry Island and has 
placed it at the disposal of the United States Army, the 
militia, the navy and friends who desire to attain pro- 
ficiency in target gunnery and bomb practice with aero- 
planes. An effort was made at first to start a branch of 
the naval militia at Marblehead, but the selectmen were 
unwilling to sign the necessary petition without the sanc- 
tion of a town meeting. 
A town meeting was held and voted unanimously in 
favor of the plan, after addresses by Greeley S. Curtis 
and others interested in aviation. Meanwhile, however, 
other selectmen had come into office and through the op- 
position of two of them the petition has not yet been 
signed. Nevertheless, it is thought that by another method 
it will be possible to start an aviation unit. 
The plan calls for a unit of twenty-three men, with 
five aviators and two machines. Mr. Cabot has bought 
the ground and is to build a hangar on the western end 
of Mystery Island, off the Manchester-Beverly Fars 
shore. Mr. Cabot has one machine and another available 
at the Burgess plant at Marblehead. It is hoped that this 
small beginning will lead to a large number of privately- 
built and owned seaplanes being maintained along tne 
Massachusetts coast, with a large number of aviators who 
will pursue the art with a view to its military uses.” M>. 
has been flying at Pensacola, Fla., and 
SEAPLANE 
RESTING 
while there the armored 
cruiser North Carolina re- 
turned from a practise cruise 
at Guantanamo, Cuba, where 
here gunfire was directed by 
aviators flying back and forth 
at right angles to the direc- 
tion of the target. 
“Tt might, perhaps, be in- 
discreet.” said. - Mr. Cabot; 
“to give the exact distance, 
size of target and percentage 
of hits recorded, but it may 
be said in a general way that 
at a distance where the sur- 
face of the water would not be 
in sight and with guns of not over ten inches a percentage 
of hits was obtained incomparably greater than a much 
nearer range in Santiago, July 3, 1808, which marked at 
that time the high-water record of efficiency in this regard. 
“An expenditure of about $3,800,000 would secure 
for twenty-four warships officers and the needful equip- 
ment. It would mean for each one torpedo-carrying aero- 
plane, two high-speed fighting machines and two spotting 
and ee aeroplanes, with a catapult, storage facilities 
and hoists, as well as the required spare parts for all of 
the apparatus. For personnel there would be required on 
each vessel five aviators who would be commissione 
officers and twenty-two enlisted men, making a total 
120 commissioned officers and 2640 men. At present we 
have not quite enough equipment for two ships. 
“Suppose a fleet or vessel which is not equipped to 
put an aviator into the air under the conditions which 
obtain at the time of combat is opposed to a fleet or ship 
which can put aviators into the air. Such a situation 
might either be due to the possession of aeroplanes on 
ON THE WATER 
one side and their absence on the other, or to the supericr 
annaratus on one side for launching aeroplanes direct 
from the deck or, to speak more correctly, from the ap- 
paratus carried on the battleships, when the other side 
was without such apparatus or its aviators or enlisted men 
IN ACTION—JUST LEAVING THE SURFACE 
IN MID-AIR—AT A MILE A MINUTE 
