Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present modest and serious viscount, Rowland Arthur Herbert Nelson Hood, descended from the families of three British naval greats-Nelson, Hood and Hood's brother, Lord Bridport. A seaman like his ancestors, the present Lord Bridport went to the naval training college at Dartmouth, was a midshipman aboard H.M.S. Nelson for three years, fought as a lieutenant commander in World War II. Mussolini confiscated his duchy during the war, but Lord Bridport got it back and returned...
...four propellers, with a mighty thrust, churned up a boiling wake, and the great ship tore through the water at well over 30 knots with barely a tremor. Overheated bearings forced Commodore Manning to postpone the full-speed test. But some salts aboard estimated that at one time the ship was making about 35 knots, and would be capable of more with the engines full out. (The Queen Mary, current transatlantic champion, made her record run in 1938 at an average speed of 31.69 knots, hit a top full day's speed of 32.08.) Said Vice Admiral Edward...
When he reaches Cambridge he plans to live aboard his ship "Miru" named after a Polynesian goddess anchored in the Charles. When at work in New Zealand, Davis depends upon the ship to reach the more than 16,000 people in the Islands...
Tuesday evening--Moonlight cruise aboard the S.S. Boston Belle for seniors, their dates, their parents, their friends. Liquor, beer, and dancing will be available on board. Tickets on sale. Bus transportation from Harvard Square to the Belle's pier at Rose Wharf will be available at extra cost...
Unlike the U.S., Australia now raises no objection to travel behind the Iron Curtain. Last week a Douglas Skymaster arrived in Hong Kong from Sydney with 26 Australians aboard. In Hong Kong they went their separate ways. Five, left-wing trade union delegates, went on into Red China for the May Day celebrations in Peking. The other 21, soldiers and airmen, flew on to Korea to fight the Chinese Communists...