Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the oil centres at New Orleans, Houston, Galveston, and down Mexico's coast via the Canal from the Pacific. U. S. bases along these routes are indicated by U. S. flags, foreign bases by anchors. Air bases in the area are indicated by airplanes -red for land craft, blue for seaplanes...
...Navy becomes mistress of the seas, the new ruler will have a 165-year-old tradition to look back on. That tradition stems from dashing Scot John Paul Jones, father of the navy, skipper of Bon Homme Richard and many another fighting craft of the days of wooden ships and iron men. It is of seamy Farragut, who dammed the torpedoes at Mobile Bay and went ahead, of Schley and his sharpshooting bluejackets at Santiago, of urbane Dewey at Manila ("You may fire when you are ready, Gridley"). It is of scholarly, outspoken Bill Sims and the North Sea patrol...
...British officers & men quietly boarded all major French ships berthed with the Home Fleet, mostly at Portsmouth and Plymouth. These included two elderly battleships (Paris and Courbet), two light cruisers, eight destroyers, several submarines. At the same time, the officers of some 200 minesweepers, sub-chasers and other small craft were notified that they were in custody. To reach the submarine Surcouf, world's biggest (2,880 tons), the boarding party had to cross the deck of a larger French ship. The Surcouf's watch heard, gave an alarm, started a lead-spitting scuffle. A French officer...
...British east coast, from Berwick-on-Tweed on the Scottish border around to Hastings on the Channel, where William the Conqueror conquered, was proclaimed a defense zone and its inhabitants packed up. Britain's bathing beaches became a barbed-wire front. A huge fleet of fishing craft to transport troops in small groups was reported being assembled by the Germans along the Norwegian, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts...
Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. is well under way on its $10,400,000 contract, let in February 1939, for four Maritime Commission cargo ships for American Export Lines. In the yard at Decatur an estimated $1,000,000 worth of river craft were last week building. But the big feather in Ingalls' cap was a fat $16,000,000 contract for four sleek, 489-foot, 9,2Oo-ton passenger ships originally destined for U. S. Lines' New York-London trade. Ingalls is not alone in its belief that the riveted ship is on the way out. Near Newport News...