Word: cherbourg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aboard the Dutch Achilles, Captain Schoofs peeled off his burnt clothes, borrowed a uniform from the Dutch captain and was carried to Cherbourg where he briskly stepped ashore. "With extraordinary rapidity," he cried, "the electric wiring propagated the blaze! Fire broke out in several widely separated parts of the ship all at once...
Dirty weather began as soon as the ship left Cherbourg. The second day out the great hull plowed into mountainous grey-streaked combers and a 60-m. p. h. head wind. Speed was cut to 7 knots, just enough to maintain steerage but so vast is the Majestic that first-class passengers remained in comparative comfort. At lunch time she creaked violently twice, a shudder ran down the ship. Few passengers noticed...
Last week's legend was that without passport or ticket he had sailed out of Cherbourg into Manhattan on the North...
Frenchmen were proud last week that they had lost no submarine since 1928, whereas the British Navy had lost three. The French first-class submarine Promethée of 2,000 tons (estimated cost $2,000,000) was maneuvering on the surface of the English Channel near Cherbourg, with several French bluejackets standing on her deck. Suddenly the Promethée began to go down by the stern.. Since her hatches were open, water poured in and she sank like a stone, carrying 62 men to their death. Her commander, a Lieut, du Mesnil, stepped out of the conning...
...Gold ingots worth $320,000 plunked into Cherbourg harbor last week while Frenchmen were unloading $24,000,000 of gold from the U. S. from the British liner Berengaria. Soon French divers had recovered all but $24,000 worth of the lost gold. When they finally gave up the hunt with shrugs, French dredges began to dredge...