Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since early this summer it has provided the close escort for all convoys between North America and the United Kingdom, including the biggest convoy ever: 150 ships which recently delivered a million-ton cargo to England. At the same time R.C.N. ships made up 30% of the general support units roaming the North Atlantic. Canada's is a small-ship Navy, greater in numbers than in gunpower: 20 destroyers, 45 frigates, 100 corvettes, 60 minesweepers, Macdonald said, though he admitted that he was purposely understating the figures. Britain still holds title to the Canadian-crewed aircraft carriers Puncher...
During the first half of 1944 U.S. ship sailings averaged 1,400 a month, carried 27 million tons of dry cargo and 9.3 million tons of petroleum products. This meant that U.S. ship operators, acting as agents for the War Shipping Administration, handled an average of one outbound sailing every 30 minutes...
This week U.S. forces were going after Brittany's chief port with everything they had. Waves of bombs broke over the harbor, destroyed a German light cruiser, heavily damaged a destroyer and 14 cargo ships. England's ancient and honored battleship War spite, serenely standing 18 miles out, in 150 minutes plunked 212 rounds into Brest's forts, knocked out four big-gun batteries...
Last week, two months after the surrender, the first Allied ship was unloaded at a Cherbourg wharf. Its cargo: eight locomotives and 24 freight cars-to get more supplies moving...
They were not always pets. They were born in days of desperation, when the U.S. needed many more carriers than it could hope to acquire in years if it stuck exclusively to its big first-line craft. The Navy was already converting oilers and C-3 cargo hulls into small carriers when President Roosevelt put the Maritime Commission to work on a new baby...