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Sot sO ae ee THE MARINE REVIEW | VOL. 46 CLEVELAND JUNE, 1914 NEW YORK No. 6 UNITED STATES BATTLESHIP UTAH AT VILLAFRANCHE Ee TS "seldom tbat a bist ees inant can Se p out from the lines in which his own work lies into the very heart * of. a great, but distinct profession, can be welcomed by those who are. devoting their lives to it with all the cordiality of an equal, and can be made to feel that his efforts to do their work, no. matter how far he may fall short of their own high attainment, entitle him to consider- ation as one of them. And yet, when I dropped my work as executive head of a large steel plant one day last fall and became on the following day assistant navigator of one of our greatest battleships, I stood upon the threshold of an eight -weeks' trip which was destined to be not only exceedingly interesting, but to afford an opportunity of seeing into the very heart of the navy officers' profession and of realizing the tremendous amount of misapprehension and mis- information that exists in the minds of the American people as to the lives of the officers and the men who are manning our fleets. SW. UTLEY, Assistant Navigator, U.S. S Utah On October 23 slast, Lieut... Rudd (junior officer in my own division) and I arrived in Hampton Roads bearing orders from the captain of the Michigan Naval Brigade to re- port to the commanding officer of the Atlantic fleet for assignment in con- nection with the cruise about to. be Mr. S. W. Utley, Vice-Pres. and General Manager of the Detroit Steel Casting Co., is navigating officer of the Michigan naval militia with the rank of Lieutenant, and accepted the invitation of the navy department to take part in_ the cruise to the Mediterranean last fall, and in the spring of 1912 spent two weeks with the fleet at battle target practice., He will contribute a series of articles cover- ing the impression made upon a business man by the active work of the fighting navy. made to the Mediterranean. By the time lunch was over, additional naval militia officers from Illinois, Wiscon- sin, Minnesota and Ohio had arrived and; accompanied by them, we board- ed the flagship Wyoming and pre- sented our orders to the admiral's chief of staff, who very quickly en- dorsed them, instructing us to report to commanding officers of the various ships for quarters and duty. As Com- mander Hughes handed our orders back to us and bade us good-bye, he remarked: "I hope you will have a pleasant time and a profitable one. | believe there are a good many things we can show you, and I know there are a great many you can show us. I have been the length of the Great Lakes on one of your ore carriers, and I know that when it comes to handling big ships in close quarters, no one in the world can equal your Great Lakes captains. Good-bye, and good luck to you." I had requested assignment to the U. S. S. Utah, in memory of the two weeks I spent aboard her at target practice two years ago, and in the knowledge that a good many of the men who had become my friends at that time were still aboard her. An hour after we had left the Wyoming, accompanied by Mr. Rudd, I found myself amid the old familiar sur- roundings upon her deck, shaking hands with some of my old friends and meeting those who were to be new ones; being assigned to quarters, and being made to feel thoroughly at home. In addition to the two of us from Detroit, the ship was to carry Lieut. Commander MacDonald, of the Ohio Reserve, and Lieut. Van Vleck,