Word: buoying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rugged fishermen of nearby St. Lawrence Harbor ran to the cliff top, lowered a boat on ropes. It capsized. The waves threw men from the two wrecks against the cliff base, some alive, many dead. Rigging a breeches-buoy to the ledge where half-frozen survivors perched, the fishermen brought up, one by one, those who were not washed away before their turn came. The dead numbered nearly 200, and Commander Hickox was among them...
Meanwhile the aviator, who had suffered a fractured skull and several broken ribs, had managed to grasp a buoy after being thrown clear of his sinking plane...
Just as the pilot was about to loose his grasp on the buoy, Warner pulled him into his small boat and rowed him safely to shore...
...Biscay in a French blimp. He had taken the controls himself for a bit. The next day the blimp thought it saw a submarine on the seafloor near Penmarch Point, where a U-boat had periodically attacked shipping entering the Loire's mouth. The blimp put down a buoy. Airplanes and sub-chasers dropped depth charges. An oil slick showed, but the Allies did not claim a submarine. After the war divers went down off Penmarch Point, and there they found a submarine...
There are some points in the Western Hemisphere, said Franklin Roosevelt, that have nothing to do with the defense of the Americas. There are some other points outside the Hemisphere that are vitally important. It is impossible, said he, to draw a line and put a buoy...