Excerpt from Annual Register of the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD: Ninety-Ninth Academic Year, 1943-1944 For many years the three upper classes were sent on practice cruises during June, July, and August of each year, for practical instruction in navigation, sea manship, electrical engineering, marine engineering, gunnery, and radio. In 1929 a second-class summer was established, the midshipmen of that class being retained at the Naval Academy for practical instruction, but it was discontinued in 1941. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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