Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hideaway in the New Georgia group. Wickham Anchorage lies hidden behind a long, narrow, palmy, hook-shaped island. It is only 120 miles from the main Jap positions on Guadal. Though the approaches are tricky, good-sized vessels can hide there. Last week a group of Jap cargo ships did. U.S. dive-bombers found them and in two attacks sank four. They also found quite a few landing barges by which the Japs sneak-land and sank five. At week's end SBDs sank two destroyers off the New Georgia group - which may have been headed for either Munda...
...their oily hands, to be U-boat engineers executed for a breach of discipline. The square-rigger has been shelled into half-ruin and her Captain Skalder, whose curses fall "like bars of iron" through his great red block of beard, says he is bound for Halifax with a cargo of rum. But Bannon notices that the shell wounds were made with axes and he suspects the cargo...
Snooping, he learns that the cargo is a good hundred torpedoes, enough mines to drive a hole through the seabottom. The Gaunt Woman is a U-boat supply ship, "the bitch at whose dugs they must feed or starve." With the aid of Conrad and Margaret MacLean ("a strapping girl, done up in seagoing style"), Bannon sets about forcing the devils to eat their own brimstone. He succeeds in making the Gaunt Woman one gigantic time bomb for the ruin of her U-boat offspring. As she blows, Bannon lifts "his clenched hands in a gesture of malediction," says...
...ability to handle heavy materials allowed him to cut the time for delivering a Liberty ship from an initial 197 days to an average of under 40 days in his Portland yards, as against an average for the industry of about 56 days. It allowed him to build more cargo ships in his Portland yards in one year than Hog Island built in four. It allowed him to launch one vessel in four days, 15 hours, and another which, 51 days after keel-laying, turned up with cargo in Australia. From the Kaiser empire, sprawling from Seattle to Portland...
...Indian Ocean one of them was intercepted recently by Allied naval forces. At first the 8,000-ton cargo ship hoisted a neutral flag, gave the name of a neutral vessel, but in misspelling the name tipped its game. When Allied warships opened fire the crew scuttled the ship. Seventy-eight Germans were captured. From them it was learned that the ship, en route from Japan to Germany with a valuable cargo, was a blockade runner...