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...headed north. The first day out, we were running on a reach through the Zuider Zoe, when one of these postcard sloops came shipping up astern, pulled out to pass, and then cut under our bow. We all politely stared at its four man crew. They stared right back, and one of them scrambled into his cabin. He promptly reappeared holding an enormous red swallow-tail flat, which he bont onto a halliard and ran up to the top of his mast. After a few minutes he pulled it down again and sailed off. We were very concerned about...
...last week, Kerans decided to run the Communist gauntlet. At 10:12 p.m. he gave the order to sail. The Amethyst nosed out into the channel astern of a Yangtze freighter. At 10:23 p.m., the Communists discovered the Amethyst in motion when the steamer ahead of her was challenged by flares from the shore. The Communists opened up with heavy artillery and machine-gun fire. The Amethyst returned the fire. In London, the Admiralty received a message from the Amethyst: "Am under heavy fire and hit." Ten minutes later she messaged: "Still under heavy fire." At midnight the moon...
...Royal Navymen, the 20-year-old Nelson and Rodney were something special. They were unlike all other battleships; all their big guns were massed on long, sweeping bows, and could not be trained astern. Navymen liked to believe that they were designed on the proud premise that a British battleship would never turn tail. Now that they were obsolete, economy dictated the ships' retirement. The five veterans, said Viscount Hall, "would be of very little value in any future...
...with hounds, the only place to be is alongside 'em, not pressing the beauties on from astern. But I still think TIME is a capital magazine...
...Queen represents a blending of many ancient and modern arts. Her builders had to wrestle with the problem of constructing a hull of titan strength to withstand almost unimaginable strains as the seas pass under her 1,020 feet, lifting her first by the bow, then amidships, then astern. The propulsion engineers used the power of 50 locomotives to drive the four screws, each 20 feet across and weighing 35 tons, which are, nevertheless, so delicately mounted that they can be turned by a man's hand...