Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China-Yünnan border at Lao-Kay and Chinese labor crews began to take up the track of the Chinese portion of the French-owned railway for use elsewhere in China. One hundred and twenty small and large Japanese warships moved into the Gulf of Tonkin and dropped anchor...
From Vichy came conflicting accounts of their escape. One story said that the ships had weighed anchor secretly and slipped out of Toulon to join refugee General Charles de Gaulle in Britain. But French sailors bitterly resented the British attack at Oran, were not likely to join forces with a friend who had now become an enemy...
Hull down over the horizon, the British capital ships' 15-inchers blasted away at the harbor (top right). The French ships, still at anchor when the bombardment began, were lined up for the slaughter. Those with steam up, hastily got under way. Taken from the upper works of a tall ship (probably the Dunkerque) the picture (lower right) shows the 26,500-ton battle cruiser Strasbourg, whose stern is visible beyond the bridge of the Provence (in the foreground), starting to pull out. Beyond her, the sister ship of the Provence, the 22,189-ton battleship Bretagne has already...
...cluster of rocks about 150 ft. square, a mile off the shore of Westchester County. According to CBS calculations, it is the finest spot around New York City for radio transmission. Now leveling the island off, CBS engineers intend to surround it with a 16 ½ ft. sea wall, anchor a 410-ft. transmitter upon it in 39 ft. of concrete. Housed in a control building 75 ft. square will be all the equipment needed for transmission. Two telephone lines will be laid on the bottom of the Sound to carry programs from WABC's Manhattan studios. Against their...
Assumption Day. On the morning of Aug. 15, the old Greek minelaying cruiser Helle dropped anchor off the Aegean island port of Tinos, carrying an official delegation to participate in the celebration of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and bathe in the holy waters of that island. At 8:30, while crowds of celebrants strolled the harbor front, a torpedo clove the water beside the warship, exploded against a breakwater. A second torpedo missed the Helle and exploded before the village. A third found its mark, burst in the Helle's boiler room. The Helle sank an hour...