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"NEWSPAPER WRITERS SAIL.; Transport Orizaba Starts with Big Delegation for Peace Conference. The American transport Orizaba, commanded by Captain Freeman, U.S.N., sailed from Pier 5, Hoboken, at 2:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon for Brest with ninety-eight newspaper correspondents, photographers, and moving picture operators from all parts of the United States, and two army officers." New York Times, Dec. 2, 1918. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=950DEFD81239E13AB... Pier 5, Hoboken, NJ.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Orizaba_(ID-1536)

Thanks Art Siegel and B-59. I found this photo published in a Dec. 4, 1918 article in the Hartford Courant.

US Navy ships in Trepassey Bay, Newfoundland there to support the Curtiss NC flying boats' transatlantic attempt. They are from front to back, (still in wartime dazzle camouflage) the tanker USS Hisko (ID-1953), USS Upshur (DD-144) (adjacent to Hisko), USS Aroostook (ID-1256), and USS Prairie (AD-5). See: www.navsource.org/archives/11/0603.htm www.navsource.org/archives/09/03/0305.htm

Thanks TVL1970, we'll add this information to the catalog record.

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Stokes stretcher.. Still in use: "A Stokes basket, also called a Stokes stretcher or Stokes litter, is a metal wire or plastic litter widely used in search and rescue. Its key feature is that it can be disassembled for transport in backpacks or by pack horse. Originally designed by Charles Francis Stokes, these baskets have been notorious for spinning under the downdraft from the rotating helicopter blades." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litter_(rescue_basket)#Stokes_basket Admiral Stokes, the inventor: "Rear Admiral Stokes served in the Navy from 1889 until 1917 when he retired. His duties carried him to Cuba during the Spanish-American War, to the Orient during the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippines during the insurrection. He was a pioneer in abdominal surgery and devised the first-aid dressing which the Army and Navy used in modified form during the World War. He also devised the Stokes splinter stretcher." www.arlingtoncemetery.net/cfstokes.htm