The U. S. Navy was asked for seaplanes to help fishing boats to locate schools of fish in peacetime
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The U. S. Navy was asked for seaplanes to help fishing boats to locate schools of fish in peacetime
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When Airplanes Go Fishing. Gloucester asks the Navy for forty flying-boats
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THE aviator, looking down into the
still, clear water, saw a submarine
sunning on the bottom of the ocean.
He signaled a destroyer. She steamed
up and dropped a depth-bomb. After
the tumult had subsided, oil began to
spread on the surface of the water:
the U-boat had been blown
to pieces.
That was the war-time job of
the naval airplane. What will
it do now? Hunt fish instead
. of submarines?
- Every year forty fishing-
schooners start out from Glou-
cester, Mass., in search of great
schools of mackerel. Hereto-
fore the custom has been to
station a lookout on the fore-
mast of each vessel. Presently
one of the lookouts would sight a
school of fish. Then the boats would
close in, spread their nets, and haul in
the fish.
These lookouts, who were stationed
about thirty feet above the level of the
water, could spot fish only within a
radius of a mile or so. Think of the
possibilities of an airplane flying three
hundred feet up! One observer in an
airplane could scan an area ten times
as large as would be possible to the
lookouts of a whole fishing fleet, and
would save the boats much of the time
that is usually wasted in cruising
around.
The town of Gloucester has made
a request of Secretary of the Navy
Daniels to lend her a fleet of forty
flying-boats.
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-08
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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25
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Davide Donà
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 95, n. 2, 1919
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