Leslie Compton

What a great group of people who have registered for my class!  We have one last meeting to get our White Fleet battleships home to Hampton Roads, Virginia where they will be stripped of their gold filigree and painted the ‘battleship grey’. We were lucky to have a gentleman bring to class and display a stadimeter for all of us to see.  This was the instrument the officer of the day used to determine the distance between his ship and…

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