Word: cruisers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Admiral Albert Cleaves. 79, U. S. N. retired, able Wartime Commander of the Cruiser & Transport Force whose convoys transported 2,511,047 soldiers across the Atlantic without a single loss; of pneumonia; in Philadelphia. He commanded the Mayflower, later the Presidential yacht on its 1903 geodetic survey cruise which charted the Atlantic's deepest hole (27,984 ft.) off Puerto Rico, supervised construction of the first U. S. torpedo factory at Newport, initiated ship refuelling...
Adolf Hitler turned over his German Navy last week to a new commander, Rear Admiral Rolf Carls. Simultaneously Nazi warships in Spanish waters began to swagger. The cruiser Konigsberg had been "commanding" Spanish Reds by radio to set free the seized Nazi steamer Palos (TIME, Jan. 4). When the Reds remained obdurate last week, the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec seized the Aragon, a Spanish steamer. These nautical "acts of war" (as Madrid called them) would have meant more had not Der Führer already landed on Spanish soil such important numbers of German troops, almost an army...
Nearly 24 hours before reaching Buenos Aires, Franklin Roosevelt's second official reception began. The Argentine battleships Rivadavia and Moreno, cruiser Almirante Brown and eight destroyers sighted the Indianapolis and its escort Chester off the coast of Uruguay, fired 21 guns and formed up behind as escort. When the Indianapolis arrived in Buenos Aires, President Justo and practically the entire Argentine and U. S. delegations to the Peace Conference were on the dock in top hats and full official regalia. "Mi amigo!" exclaimed Linguist Roosevelt as he seized his peer's hand and did one of his "great...
Certainly it was a hopeful, happy Franklin Roosevelt who descended his gangplank from the cruiser Indianapolis to take the limelight on the stage that his advance...
...Franklin Roosevelt disappeared hull down over the public horizon. Through daylight and darkness he ploughed ahead at 25 knots for three whole days during which the nearest newshawks were the three representatives of the press associations who followed with the Secret Service men half a mile behind on the cruiser Chester. On the fourth morning when the cruisers dropped anchor to refuel at Port of Spain, Trinidad, the newshawks had a peek at him. Only news they got was that he and his mother had been in Port of Spain on a cruise 32 years before...