Southern Cruise of USS Saratoga 1929 Part 1

Southern Cruise of USS Saratoga 1929 - Aircraft carrier. Cartoon drawings as titles. CU Groups of ships personnel aboard USS SARATOGA (CV-3), Jan. 24, 1929 as the ship prepares to cross the equator. Initiation ceremonies at Order of Shell Backs. Sailors dressed in various costumes. CU Several cartoons. 03:00:39 Ships officers and Admirals lined up in whites watching initiation ceremonies. MS Initiated personnel, sailors with stocks on necks, oil dobbed on them, paint on faces, hair cut off. 03:03:18 Title - Attack on canal. Flag bridge of USS Saratoga as old style biplane fighters take off for Panama Canal. 03:03:53 Lighter aircraft lined up on flight deck preparing to take off (planes probably old Curtiss biplane type). 03:04:10 Title - Colonel Lindbergh visits ship. CU Col. LINDBERGH & ship Captain inspect planes on deck. 03:05:21 Title - Two Air Men. CU Adm. H. A. WILEY, Comdr.-In-Chief of US fleet & LINDBERGH pose for picture. LINDBERGH in cockpit, prepares to take off. LS Plane leaves ship, escorted by two fighter craft. 03:08:03 Four Star flag flying from mast. LS Comdr.-In-Chief, Adm. WILEY and officers on bridge. Groups of fighter craft on flight deck, motors warming up, preparing to take off, 03:15:05 Fighter aircraft lands on deck of Saratoga, interesting shot shows obsolete type of arresting device. Military Aviation; 1929; CV3;