Word: bulkheads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trimotored Rohrbach-Romar seaplanes his company has built for Luft Hansa's trans-Atlantic service crashed at Travemuende, Germany, floated for 90 minutes, then sank. Thirteen passengers and crew were saved. The crash was due to test flying at low speed. The sinking was because hull portholes and bulkhead doors had not been closed as Dr. Rohrbach had ordered...
Ships. For the first time in 12 years all cross channel ships and airplanes had to suspend service for some days. When the French channel steamer Engadine set out imprudently from Boulogne, towering seas swept off a hatch, flooded her bow, and burst through a bulkhead into the women's firstclass saloon. By supreme good fortune no one was drowned within the ship and she managed to limp into Folkstone harbor without foundering...
...January I went down to the cellar as usual. I started back in horror against the bulkhead, for the cursed white flood was rising higher. The tide of pamphlets had seemed to run in fortnightly or monthly waves. By keeping the block of stores at 95 degrees throughout the fall, I had been able to hold the paper flood in check, but what was I to do when the paper spring tides were upon...
...arrived in the nick of time, for the white flood had seeped up through the bulkhead and cellar windows, and Mount Auburn Street was snowy with the stuff. For days afterward the sewers were clogged, but this quality of the printed matter had its good side as well. The city officials said that none of the dirt from Fort Hill had packed so solidly and heavily as each successive load of Lampoon...
...descended into the gruesome, barnacled grotto of the dead, and as they fumbled through the rusty, sea-fouled compartments, scenes of the death struggles were revealed. Men had stuck to their posts. Inside the gash where the Rome had bitten, pinned between the bent steel plates and the engineroom bulkhead, was the body of a seaman. One arm was stretched out in an effort to grasp the lever which would have closed an emergency valve and perhaps have saved the lives of some of his fellows...