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HATCHING OUR "MOSQUITO FLEET" 391
THE CENTER OF INTEREST AT THE NEW YORK SHOW
Patrol boat number 10, the Chingachsook, clipping oft twenty knots an hour.
yachts. These can be converted quickly
for remarkable work. One factory alone
today is turning out a thirty thousand
dollar motor boat every twenty-four
hours and has completed five hundred
fifty of these submarine killers which
have been shipped to England and Russia.
Chicago boasts a builder who has
standardized a fifty-foot military cruiser
which he is selling to millionaires for use
on the Great Lakes and other inland
waters of the Middle West. When the
time comes he will not only increase his
output, but each boat which he has sold
will be shipped to one of our coasts with
its already trained crew, ready for the
commands of the power squadron. Even
FROM NEW YORK TO NOVA SCOTIA AND RETURN
This little vessel navigated the choppy seas with utmost ease, burning, kerosene for the whole distance.