Word: bowsprits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From bowsprit to stern, the Sea Cloud measures 310 ft. She has a bulk of 2,323 gross tons, carries 36,000 sq. ft. of canvas on her four towering masts. Below decks are four diesel engines which can boost her along at 14 knots. Under sail, she can step up her speed to 16 knots. But it was not such figures that awed the roustabouts in Baltimore; it was the fantastic elegance of her fittings...
...Without a navy," Admiral Jean Fran-gois Darlan once said, quoting Richelieu, "one can neither carry on a war nor profit by a peace." Last week the British Navy rode the Mediterranean and the Italian Navy was afraid to poke a bowsprit out of port. How nice it would be, Benito Mussolini must have thought wistfully, if the three western Mediterranean powers got together somehow and drove the British out of Mare Nostrum...