Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this reason these goods were carried in the after part of the ship while the earth inductor with which the earth's magnetic forces were measured was carried forward as far away from the stern as conditions permitted. It may interest your readers to know that the anchors carried were made of bronze and the anchor cable was very heavy Manila hawser. All stoves in galley as well as cooking utensils were of nonmagnetic material...
From her pinprick on the world's charts of New York Harbor, off which she has lain to warn the ships of the world of a guardian shoal, the Ambrose steamed southeastward?for 1? mile. Then down went her bebarnacled anchor-&-chain once more...
...Nova Scotia last week made Captain David William Bone of the Anchor liner Transylvania uncertain of his bearings as he approached Nantucket, en route from Glasgow to Manhattan. He should have been over the continental shelf, the underwater plateau which extends 150 miles seaward from the North American coast. He ordered a sounding lead dropped. At 100 fathoms it should have touched bottom. It touched nothing. Twice more he sounded. No bottom. Although puzzled he decided that he was on his correct course and the Shelf might be out of place. Apparently last month's earthquake (TIME...
...since 1889. when a tidal wave swashed shipping against the wooded mountains, has Apia Harbor. Samoan Islands, been so aghast as last week. Although it was a damp, warm day of Capricorn summer, a breeze rumpled the thick greenery around Apia. At anchor rode the brigantine-rigged wooden yacht Carnegie. Built in 1909 to study all the things that the Carnegie Institute thinks man should know about the sea, the Carnegie was made a unique ship: not an ounce of magnetic material in her hull or aboard her. Even her 150-h. p. auxiliary motor was built of nonmagnetic stuff...
...Kizhuyak Bay, Alaska, one Anton Larson, 68, lost his false teeth as he pulled his boat's anchor out of ten fathoms of water. He dropped the anchor, took a deep breath, pulled himself down the chain to the bottom, rescued the teeth...