d how skilful had been the remedial measures applied.

Aboard the _Leviathan_ as other big German liners, such as the
_Amerika_, _President Grant_, _President Lincoln_, (recently sunk by a
German torpedo while bound for this country from France), the _George
Washington_, and other vessels fitted as troop and hospital ships, and
the like, naval crews were placed, and naval officers, of course, in
command. They have proved their mettle, all. They have shown, further,
that when we get ready to take our place, after the war, among the
nations that go in heavily for things maritime, we shall not be among
the last, either in point of resourcefulness or intrepidity.

Civilian sailormen who have sailed on vessels commanded by naval
officers have been inclined to smile over the minutia of navy discipline
and have expressed doubt whether the naval men would find a certain
rigidity any more useful in a given situation than the civilian seamen
would find a looser ordered system. We can but base judgment on facts,
and among the facts that have come under the writer's observation, was
the difficulty which the German officers of the _Vaterland_ encountered
in taking their vessel into her dock in the North River. The very last
time they attempted it the great hulk got crosswise in the current in
the middle of the stream, and caused all sorts of trouble.

Our naval officers, however, made no difficulty at all in snapping the
steamship into her pier. She steams up the Hudson on the New York side,
makes a big turn, and lo! she is safely alongside her pier. Any
seafaring man will tell you that this implies seamanly ability.

Following is a list of the larger German ships which were repaired by
the navy engineers, with the names under which they now sail:

FORMER NAME PRESENT NAME
_Amerika_.................._America_.
_Andromeda_................_Bath_.
_Barbarossa_..............._Mercury_.
_Breslau_.................._Bridgeport_.
_Cincinnati_..............._Covington_[1] (sunk).
_Frieda Lenhardt_.........._Astoria_.
_Friedrich der Grosse_....._Huron_.
_Geier_...................._Schurz_.
_George Washington_........name retained.
_Grosser Kurfurst_........._Aeolus_.
_Grunewald_................_Gen. G. W. Goethals_.
_Hamburg_.................._Powhattan_.
_Hermes_...................name retained.
_Hohenfelde_..............._Long Beach_.
_Kiel_....................._Camden_.
_Kaiser Wilhelm I_........._Agamemnon_.
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