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...middle of World War II, was an efficient, lethal little vessel. As a curtain raiser to amphibious landings, it could briefly match the firepower of a modern cruiser with its close-in salvos of rockets. The enemy on the beach quickly came to respect its sting, but the unhappy crewmen aboard just as quickly discovered that the LSMR was not designed as a pleasure craft. In the calmest seas, it shook like a dog emerging from a bath; in hurricane weather, it performed better, sloughing wildly over the long sea swells-but it was worth a man's life...
...cannon developed in Scotland in 1779. The Carronade looks sawed in half-it has an awesome, cruiser-like bow with eight rocket launchers planted on a forward deck which slants downward to the steel-skinned superstructure, then ends abruptly. It looks, in the words of the Carronade's crewmen, like "a bobtailed cruiser...
...dawn he stood on Yucca Flat in a milling mass of scientists, newsmen, civil-defense workers, military observers and state governors, just waiting. To the north, the Joshua trees stood like shaggy ghosts, and behind them lights marked the 500-ft. tower that held the bomb. Near by, TV crewmen turned their great searchlights toward the ground to warm themselves in their artificial sunlight. The desert was bitter cold, and no one seemed to have enough clothing, except, perhaps, veteran Atom-Bomb Watcher Leonard. He was encased in layers of woolens. wearing a cowboy hat with a brim curled like...
...nuclear-powered freighter will cost some $30 million, be in the 10,000 to 15,000 gross-ton class and about 500 ft. long. It will be fitted out as a floating exhibition hall, with a theater seating 1,000, exhibition spaces, a dispensary and accommodations for 75 crewmen and passengers. Annual operating cost: about...
...British put the seven mutineers in jail for safekeeping, let the captain out of the lavatory, and gave him back his ship, the Puszczyk (pronounced, by Poles, pushchick). He promptly sailed for Poland with the remaining six loyal crewmen, muttering philosophically: "To me is equal. Those seven wanted to leave. Let them...