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Title: Chemical engineering
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: Metallurgy Chemistry, Technical Electrochemistry
Publisher: New York (etc.) McGraw-Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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aded with thousands of troops. During the rest of theday we were treated to the impressive and spectacularsight of a great fleet of between 50 and 60 vessels start-ing across the ocean with troops, munitions and sup-plies, as part of the great answer America was makingto the Kaisers sneering taunt that we wouldnt fight. Despatching a Fleet to Europe The precautions for safety taken in despatching thatgreat fleet to sea were a matter of astonishment to all.Hydroplanes, submarine patrol boats, captive balloons,a dirigible and several destroyers paid incessant atten-tion to the departing vessels. The air and water werefilled with these small craft scurrying here and there,guarding against any surprise attack from a lurkingenemy. For several hours we were thus attended as weput to sea; and all this was accompanied by incessantsignaling from ship to ship, by semaphores, pennants,wigwagging and flashing lights. Long before dark the February 1, 1919 CHEMICAL AND METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING 125
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THE AMERICAN EDITORS IN HOLYROOD PALACE. EDINBURGH fast Leviathan had disappeared over the horizon, andthe balance of the fleet had spread out in fan shape ex-tending as far as the eye could reach. One could be par-doned a thrill of pride in this evidence of the extentto which our great war machine was working in conjunc-tion with the Allies. During the night the great fleet must have separatedinto smaller groups of vessels, because the next morningwe were in a small fleet of 14 troopships and freighters,convoyed by a United States cruiser and a destroyer.The fleet was formed roughly in column of fours, withthe cruiser leading and the destroyer in the rear. Ourcourse was changed a few degrees about every sevenminutes, and thus we zigzagged our way across theocean. The rules and regulations for passengers were evi-dence of the unusual conditions surrounding our voyage.Life jackets were either worn or kept in hand at alltimes; we were not allowed in the dining room withoutthem, and they

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