Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This week Tass, official Russian news agency, reported that a German cruiser had seized the U. S. Maritime Commission's 4,963-ton vessel City of Flint (which rescued survivors of the Athenia), bound from Manhattan to Manchester with a contraband cargo of foods, cotton, sewing machines, plows, tractors, coffee, hair and feathers. The report said that 18 Germans had boarded the City of Flint and sailed her up around Scandinavia to Kola Bay, where Murmansk lies. The German Admiralty denied all knowledge of the incident...
...raider they heard of was so mysterious, so peremptory, so cruel that she might have been a submarine-and first reports of the sinking of the Clement led the world to believe it had been attacked by a U-boat. Survivors told a different story. Bound with a cargo of gasoline from Pernambuco, Brazil, to Bahia, standing about 70 miles offshore (580 miles inside the neutral zone set up by the Panama Conference; TIME, Oct. 9), the Clement was plugging along at her weary ten-knot pace when members of the crew heard an airplane. The plane circled around, shot...
...present one, it appears to be the privilege of the war craft of belligerent nations to stop and search (under threat of fire) the vessels of neutral countries. This privilege extends to the examination of the mails, the identity of crew and passengers as well as cargo. Such "highjacking" takes place upon the high seas and, I understand, even in neutral waters where possible...
...mounting guns on merchant vessels. "On the ground of self-preservation" and as a matter of "duty" all Nazi commanders were ordered to attack Allied ships without warning. First ship to feel such a stab was the neutral Danish freighter Vendia (bound for Scotland empty to get a cargo of coal which would have made a fine prize had the U-boat waited). Eleven men were killed, six taken ashore by another Danish ship after the submarine had rescued them. Danes were furious. Aside from the coldbloodedness of this attack, it followed on the heels of Germany's seizure...
...shipbuilding business, started rehabilitating the Todd Tacoma plant for hull construction, Todd Seattle Dry Docks, Inc. for completion and outfitting of vessels. On the Gulf Coast, overworked Tampa Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., embarrassed by a $7,800,000 Maritime Commission award for four C-2 cargo ships, induced the Commission to rescind a previous award of five smaller -i ships to permit it to build the C-25. [n yards all over the U. S. ships are being launched prematurely and moved uneconomically to fitting-out basins, in order to clear the way for new keels...