Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radar station at Chatham, Mass. picked up a strange "target" - the halves of the ship seemed to be washing about in Chatham shoals 25 miles from where they were supposed to be. A low-flying search plane investigated, and read the name Pendleton on the broken vessel's bow. Only then did the Coast Guard realize that a second tanker-a sister ship of the Fort Mercer -had also split in two. The ship's radio was dead and the sections had been drifting for hours...
...rescue jobs which followed will be long remembered among New England mariners. A Coast Guard boatswain's mate named Bernard Webber lashed himself to the wheel of a 36-ft. open power lifeboat and went out to the Pendleton. Eight men had been on the Pendleton's bow; all were lost. But in the light of flares, Webber and his lifeboat snatched 32 seamen on her stern from certain death. A 33rd was drowned...
Meanwhile, the Yakutat rescued four men from the Fort Mercer's bow. Thirty miles away, the cutters Eastwind and Acushnet took men off the stern. By the time the storm subsided, 14 men from the broken tankers were lost. Of the four pieces of two ships only the Fort Mercer's stern remained afloat. It was taken into Narragansett Bay with 1,470,000 gallons of oil still in its tanks, the cargo pumped out, and then towed to Brooklyn...
...destroyed by galloping shock waves. The remedy is now understood: thinner wings and tail surfaces, and a quick passage through the danger zone. Above the transsonic, the designers hoped, the air would be easier to cope with. Shock waves would still form, but they would act predictably, like the bow waves of a ship. When the Bell X-1 flew faster than sound in 1947, much was written about the smoothness and peacefulness of supersonic flight...
...trail of a rare species of blue lizard, fell in love with the island and made it his soul's operating base. In his middle 40s, he denounced Christian conventions as a sham, declared that Western civilization was inferior to Oriental culture, made a faint bow to convention by closing all letters to his son Robin with: "Brush your teeth twice a day!" He might have made a fortune from his annotated anthology, Some Limericks, but its obscenities would have made its open sale a criminal offense in Britain and the U.S. In describing a South Wind character, Douglas...