Word: cruisers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sunken Empire. Author Magnus, biographer of Edmund Burke, Gladstone and Walter Raleigh, has painted in Kitchener the picture of a man as oldfashioned, absurd and honorable as a Royal Academy portrait. It was probably with some relief that Kitchener's colleagues learned that the Royal Navy cruiser H.M.S. Hampshire hit a German mine in the North Sea in 1916 and was lost with nearly all hands. Yet it was as if an empire had sunk with Kitchener...
...four floors were 430 boats, from a 6 ft. 10 in. dinghy to the big craft of the show, Richardson's ten-bunk motor yacht, 46 ft. long and $46,000 high. For the carnage trade there were still costlier craft, including Matthews' 42-ft., double-cabin cruiser at $53,000, and Wheeler's 43-ft., flying-bridge sedan at $55,000. But, more than ever, boat builders emphasized economy to lure more middle-income families, made wider use of low-cost, low-upkeep plastics and fiber glass. The percentage of fiberglass craft in the show...
...French, taking part in the show for the first time, displayed sailboats ranging from the 13½-ft. Vaurien at $495 to the 18-ft. Corsaire at $1,975. West Germany also made its first invasion, enticed the outboard set with the 19-ft. Graves Hummel cruiser. It sleeps five, weighs only 620 lbs., speeds up to 37 m.p.h. on a 50-h.p. engine. Price: $1,899, f.o.b. New York...
Buffoon or not, Shima has a lot to explain. On Oct. 25, 1944, the second day of the historic sea fight, Shima steamed toward Surigao Strait, south of Leyte Gulf, with two heavy cruisers, a light cruiser and four destroyers, still distant from the main battle. He hoped to reach Leyte Gulf in time to harass U.S. landing forces there, but his entire contribution to the battle, as Historian Morison observes, was to ram his flagship into a crippled heavy cruiser of another Japanese force, after firing 16 torpedoes at two islands he mistook for U.S. ships...
...Ears Island). Maneuvering for position, Togo took his column through a perilous column turn and closed with nearly 500 guns blazing. The Russian ships, which had damaged three major enemy ships, failed to score a single hit after the first bloody half-hour. Only one Russian auxiliary cruiser-a converted yacht - and two small 350-ton destroyers made their way through to Vladivostok...