Building the emergency fleet; a historical narrative of the problems and achievements of the United States shipping board emergency fleet corporation (1920)
Mattox, William Courtney · Cleveland : The Penton publishing co. · leaf 113
enemy and to enable a threat-ened ship to escape. The principal and the most successfulmeasures of defense were camouflage painting, and the equip-ment of vessels with the device known as the otter gear, bymeans of which ships were able to avoid contact with mines. The other class can be termed the…
United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation · Shipbuilding -- United States
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