Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knot) type which Great Britain has built by the dozen for service in the Channel, the Mediterranean and perhaps the Baltic, were sold by Britain to Rumania this winter. When ice left the rivers of France, up the Seine right through Paris snored these swift and lethal little craft. Turning out of the Seine into the Yonne just below Montereau it is possible to navigate that stream to the Armanc,on, continue by canal south to Dijon, thence by another canal into the Saone, which flows into the broad, Alp-born Rhone, which enters the Mediterranean just west of Marseille...
...course will be given at New London, where the U. S. maintains a submarine school and base. Small groups of students will be allowed to board the flimsy craft during the second day, and cruise under the sea. The trips will carry them into Long Island Sound and back and will not be over night...
...account. Until one day this winter, when the flag of Eire broke out at the stern of the trim, new, 50-knot torpedo boat, M1, independent Eire had no Navy at all. Even then, Eire got this ship from the British, the Government having ordered six such craft from British shipbuilders for coast-watching and general marine service...
Manhattan newshawks announced Q. E.'s arrival while she was still miles from Ambrose Light. Not until the next morning did she heave to at Quarantine, greeted there at the end of her strange maiden voyage not by swarms of welcoming craft, but by three hollow grunts from the humble sludge boat Coney Island, on her way to dump outside...
...anti-craft gun will be the one piece of artillery that may survive undamaged," Leet stated, "but there is a possibility that later adjustments to the seismograph may even strip this gun of its cloak of secrecy...