Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minutes oars went back and were pulled forward. Then - bump! Hoover's craft hit that of Beresford. "In the heat of the race," he afterward said, "I judged . . that Beresford was crowding in to my water and I thought: 'If you think you can get away with that, I'm going for you. And I did. I see now I was mistaken...
Coming. The Norwegian trawler Albr. W. Selmer puffed into Horten, Norway, late one evening last week. The harbor was alive with small craft; the town had waited up. As explorer Roald Amundsen and his five comrades stepped ashore, home at last from their try for the North Pole by airplane, the night roared with cheers. Milling crowds, pelting roses, shouting greetings, escorted the pilgrims to the Navy Club, where a midnight banquet awaited them. This feast lasted well into the dawn, when newspaper photographers swarmed in to begin the new day with pictures. Sleepy though he was, Pilot Lincoln Ellsworth...
...Mass., last week beheld a scene out of the sepia supplements of the Sunday papers. A beamy, 35-foot Navy cutter was moving steadily by, showing neither smoke nor sail and emitting a "put-put-put" altogether too faint to be coming from a gasoline motor proportionate to the craft's size. Men on the deck were observing a smokeless stack that rose amidships, a cylinder 3½ feet in diameter and 9½ feet high. The stack was revolving. The vessel was a U. S. rotorship-the first...
Lieutenants Joseph M. Kiernan and W. W. Hastings, students of naval architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, were the rotorists. Working with discarded materials, they had constructed a craft that differed from the original rotorship of Herr Anton Flettner of Germany (TIME, Nov. 17, Dec. 8, Mar. 2), in two respects: Where Flettner's R. S. Buckau had had two rotor cylinders, the lieutenants used but one, believing they thus avoided a detrimental interaction; where the base and top disc of the Flettner cylinder had revolved, in the U. S. design it was stationary. The motive principle...
...Cambridge rotorists managed, with a 12-mile breeze, to proceed at 3 knots an hour. They estimated that whereas a 10 horsepower engine would have been needed to drive their craft 6 miles an hour by propeller, the rotor and a 15-mile wind would take them 7 miles an hour with an exertion, from the put-put-put-ing motor that turned the rotor, of 1½ horsepower...