Word: cruisers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Preferred pronunciation: dur-al'-u-min. †A 10,000-ton cruiser costs $13,000,000. A battleship...
Meanwhile in Washington naval architects explained that these new cruisers had been given a low centre of gravity so they could take more punishment in battle without turning over and sinking. Secretary of the Navy Adams, minimizing the effect of the roll on their "excellent" gunfire record, declared: "No ship, yacht or cruiser is ever exactly right at first. We've been building yachts under racing rules for 25 years and haven't yet gotten the limit of speed possible. Warships are even harder. The way to build ships is to constantly keep building them instead of trying...
Harry Richman (Reichman), Manhattan nightclub host and Follies star, bought a four-year-old 36-ft. cabin cruiser named Chevalmar II. Last week he received insurance papers for it and immediately set out on a fishing cruise with Follies Girls Helen Walsh, Virginia Biddle, Gladys Glad and Miss Glad's husband, Colyumist Mark Hellinger. At Greenport, L. I., where they paused to take aboard 140 gal. of gasoline, the cruiser exploded, casting Captain White, Richman's pilot, onto the pier and spilling Miss Walsh, who was in bed, out beneath a flaming mattress. Richman rushed in through flames...
There was no suitable Navy yard in Turkey. Penhoet built one at Ismid, with a model village for 1500 workmen and 250 French engineers and foremen. The Yawuz Sultan Selim was hauled into a floating dry dock, which promptly sank under the cruiser's weight, had to be rebuilt. But the work was finally completed. Last week's fleet maneuvers proved that the Yawuz Sultan Selim is still one of the most useful of battle cruisers...
...born 1847, a son of petty retainer of the Lord of Kagoshima. He commenced sailor's career at 16 and at 21 first came under fire, in fighting with the late Enomoto's Kwaiten; studied in England, '71-73; in the Japan-China War commanded the cruiser Naniwa and sank the Chinese transport Kowsing, a British steamer flying the British flag (see p. 39); Rear-Admiral after the War; Vice-Admiral in '90; Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet in the '04-05 War and hero of the Japan Sea battle fought on 27th...