Word: bays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yacht Mayflower sailing home from Swampscott with the presidential silver, china and servitors, making her way across Massachusetts Bay toward the Cape Cod Canal, was almost rammed by the liner Martha Washington. The Mayflower cut across the liner's bow and the Martha Washington was obliged to order full speed astern...
...little piece of enemy territory near Ajdir. The troops were embarked at Melilla to the east and cruised along the Riff coast for two days with convoying battleships, both French and Spanish, shelling enemy works. After two feints, one morning the battleship Paris steamed into Alhucemas Bay and began to shell the Riff positions at the main beach. For four hours the bombardment with 12½-in. guns continued. The Riffs replied with their handful of 6-in. batteries, which of course did no serious damage to the heavily armored Paris. Meanwhile the Spanish troops, 16,000 strong, in steel...
Permit me very courteously to observe that Campobello Island is not at the head of the Bay of Fundy as declared in TIME of Aug. 31, Page 17. It is at the mouth...
...golden afternoon last week, two large seaplanes rose from Pablo Bay, Calif., and lifted their droning snouts over the Pacific. They?the "giant" seaplanes PN-9 No. 1 and PN-9 No. 3?had received orders from the Navy Department to fly to Hawai...
...Etah harbor. They got only to Igloo-da-Houny, across Booth Sound. MacMillan made a last flight in one of the Navy amphibian planes, to see Dog-Driver E-took-a-shoo, a friend, bringing him back to the anchored Bowdoin by air. Next day another start toward Baffin Bay was made, through blinding fog and raging blizzard. In Murchison Sound, the Bowdoin grounded her oaken keel on a rock ledge and stuck fast. The Peary sidled alongside to pass a towline and 34 steel drums of gasoline were heaved into the seas of seething slush to lighten the stranded...