Word: abeam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James Hall as a Hollywood gob takes the mariner's roll with wind abeam, while the supperting cast fits into the picture with only a few jars...
...Colorado, or " Battleship No. 45," is a 32,600-ton ship, 624 feet long and 97 feet abeam, and draws 31 1/2 feet of water...
...Rockland, Me., the new cruiser made 34.48 knots?or 39.2 miles an hour. Except for destroyers, no ship of the United States Navy has ever developed such great speed. Like the others of her class (Omaha, Trenton, Milwaukee, etc.) the Richmond is 550 feet in length and 55 feet abeam, and carries 12 -six-inch rapid-fire guns. Until now our Navy has been entirely without such ships, although Great Britain and Japan have a great many. It is not unlikely that one of these scout cruisers will bring President Harding back from the Pacific Coast after his trip...