Word: anchors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...little Italian steamer Artiglio, 148 ft. long, of 284 tons burden, at anchor last week near Belle He, 25 miles off the southern coast of Brittany, had an importance out of all proportion to its size as the most modern, most completely equipped salvage ship in the world. Last September the little Artiglio bobbed on front pages of the U. S. press when her grappling hooks struck the submerged wreck of the P. & O. liner Egypt, a steamer that sank off Finistere in 1922 with a loss of 92 lives, with $5,000,000 in gold and silver bullion...
...Captain William Paul, navigator. He went because he had signed a contract to sail her both ways. He had advertised for a crew and managed to get eight men. Five of them had worked on Enterprise in the races. Stimulated by success, they were ready for more adventures. The anchor was stowed below decks and everything battened down. Before they lost sight of Nantucket Light-ship the sea freshened. The cook got seasick, the barometer went down. It looked as if there might be trouble. Captain Irving Johnson took some notes of that wild homeward journey of the little boat...
...anchor in the South Pacific lay the little Australian destroyer Torrens last week. Three-quarters of a mile away Australia's two capital ships, the 10,000-ton cruisers Australia and Canberra, steamed in line of battle, decks cleared for action. Gunnery officers and navigators worked their range finders and slide rules, scribbled calculations. The eight eight-inch guns of the Australia fired a deafening broadside, the Canberra followed with her main battery. Fountains of white spray rose round the little target-ship, but when the smoke cleared, the Torrens still rode at anchor. Australia's navy tried...
After three weeks of faltering, unimpressive flight from Switzerland, the great Dornier flying boat DO-X (TIME, Nov. 17) finally rode at anchor in Lisbon Harbor last week. There she was fuelled for another short hop to Cadiz while Dornier officials fussed and worried about her ability to fly to the U. S. this winter. Less than an hour after the fuel tanks were filled, fire broke out in the auxiliary engine room, jumped to the left wing, exploded the gasoline in the wing tank before the five men aboard knew what had happened. The four crewmen, led by Pilot...
White Star, Red Star, Anchor, Canadian Pacific and Atlantic Transport lines have agreed to a "rationalization" scheme to cut down expenses, avoid overlapping service, remove wasteful competition among themselves...