Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Largest to date was the Experimenter, a craft in which house carpenters as well as boat builders had collaborated. Her four keels were laid on the principle of a catamaran. On her two lofty basketwork masts, which looked like Eiffel Towers, the resourceful professor planned to rig square sails which would unfurl, furl at the touch of a button. The freeze-up in the valley had made him rush his plans, and under bare baskets the Experimenter buzzed off among the gathering ice-cakes, pushed by her twin Diesel engines. It was New Year...
...Yorkshire and in the Dover Straits. These 500 miles of North Sea are to be sown in a band varying from 30 to 40 miles wide, leaving eight miles of safe water between mines and shore. Secret alleys through the mine field will be left for British Naval craft, but neutral ships will have to use the Dover or Kinnaird Head (Moray Firth) entrances, heavily guarded by the Navy, to reach British east coast ports...