Word: cervera
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...apparently escaped the attention of that writer that embraced in Admiral Cervera's squadron, were four armored cruisers each more heavily gunned than any vessels of the corresponding type in the U. S. Navy and of almost equal speed. These are the fine vessels that the writer contemptuously refers to:-"wretched ships, equipment and support, sailed his rusty little fleet of four cruisers and three destroyers across the Atlantic...
...spring of 1898, Spanish Admiral Pascual Cervera, handicapped by wretched ships, equipment and support, sailed his rusty little fleet of four cruisers and three destroyers across the Atlantic, straight through the operations centre of an over whelmingly superior U. S. fleet set to catch him, and safe into harbor at Santiago, Cuba without once sighting or being sighted by a U. S. warship. Navy censor ship hid that inglorious episode from the U, S. public, gagged war correspondents for another fortnight while the Navy made up its mind as to just where Cervera was. After Commodore Winfield Scott Schley...
Spunk. It looked like war last week between President Roosevelt's Coast Guard cutter Cayusa (which Ambassador Bowers used as a "Floating Embassy" before he went to Hendaye in France) and Generalissimo Franco's cruiser Almirante Cervera. As the Cayuga was taking refugees aboard at San Sebastian, the cruiser radioed: "We will open fire on you if you allow Government adherents to escape among the refugees...
...Thank you!" tartly radioed back the Cayuga. When the Almirante Cervera's eight 6-in. guns moved as though taking aim, the cutter unlimbered her one 5-in. gun, her two six-pounders. After this bit of spunk from the minute Cayuga, the stately Almirante Cervera without further interchange steamed out into the Gulf of Gascony and over the horizon...
...capitals on either side of the main entrance door of the Fogg Museum are from the Abbey of Santa Maria de Alabanza near the hamlet of Labranza de Pisuerga in the partido of Cervera, province of Palencia, Spain...