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...diving signal came. Prien began spinning his controls. Air roared from opened ballast tank vents, water rushed in to take its place. On the control board-called "the Christmas tree" because of its numerous red and green lights-lights flashed, showing Prien that the air induction valves, which carried air to the engine rooms, were closed and watertight. Down planed the Squalus. As the depth gauge showed nearly 50 ft., she began to level...
...Their Majesties and their retinue of 30 persons. Since the vessel's passenger capacity is 1,200, Their Majesties can voyage expansively. Specially outfitted suites were being built amidships last week for the King and Queen. To lessen rolling and pitching the ship will carry additional water ballast. The westbound voyage to Quebec is expected to take nine days. The 9,100-ton cruisers Southampton and Glasgow will act as escort...
Currently the Intercoastal Steamship Freight Association, organized in 1936, is in a frightful row because a nonmember, Shepard Steamship Co., which hauls lumber to the Atlantic Coast, undercuts conference rates to attract return freight rather than send its ships back in ballast...
...Marcus' original Shell company had guaranteed the British navy oil in peace or war. Deterding won his knighthood by transporting that oil, not in tankers, but as ballast instead of water in ordinary ships -thereby fooling the German submarines and keeping the guarantee to the Admiralty. His part in the post-War oil scramble was less heroic. When the U. S. S. R. nationalized the Baku oil fields he began to fulminate against the Bolsheviki and later, they charged, to plot. He backed Hitler in Germany, added a German residence to his English, Dutch and Swiss homes...
...seven weeks the 130 scoops of the Karimata brought up 400 tons an hour- sand, and nothing else. Then the scoops reached the wreck, tore away great iron ballast blocks from the hull. Said a Netherlander named Eelke Ryn de Beer last fortnight: "I was standing at the edge of the dredger when suddenly at three metres distance I saw how the gold glittered!" It was a bar weighing 120 ounces, worth about $4,000. The scoops had reached the treasure chamber. Then the sand caved in again over the ship; for three days the scoops worked furiously, finally last...