Word: battlewagons
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...deck cleaning-gear lockers warped and hung from their hinges in her hot breath, and strip molding from the wardroom overhead dropped down with a jangling crash. But damage-control crews found no major shaking-up. In her first try, North Carolina did better than many an oldtime battlewagon does in target practice...
shipbuilders who can build any ship from a trawler to a battlewagon, from a tug to a liner, there are only three...
President and operating boss of the two Sperry gyro companies is lean, blue-eyed Annapolis-man Reginald Everett Gillmor, who was commissioned an ensign in 1909 just in time for assignment to U. S. S. Delaware, the Navy's first dreadnaught. Delaware was also the first battlewagon to be equipped with a Sperry gyroscopic compass and before he had walked many tours on the quarterdeck, Ensign Gillmor knew as much about it as the two electricians who had installed it: Thomas A. Morgan (now president of Sperry Corp.) and O. B. Whitaker (now Sperry Gyro's marine manager...