Word: decking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whine of generators, the mournful complaint of one of the largest and loudest foghorns in the world. But the food was good, and there was time for recreation. Men fished for cod, killed time in the tower's hobby shops, and played pool (although the roll of the deck turned the game into something unrecognizable by landlubbering sharks...
With Lemmon on deck, Ship will surely enjoy favorable gales of laughter; without him it would undoubtedly have sunk without a glug in the neighborhood "tanks." Based on a magazine piece by Marion (See Here, Private Hargrove) Hargrove and Herb Carlson, the film is a run-of-the-main, sailor-suit farce about a peacetime yachtsman (Lemmon) who joins the Navy during World War II, and to his horror is promptly assigned to command what's known in sailor talk as a "baldheaded schooner." His mission: sail across about 1,000 nautical miles of Jap-infested ocean...
Ironically, Constellation was unable to defend herself. The ship has built-in fire-fighting equipment to flood its fuel compartments and cover the four-acre deck with foam in case of heavy attack.* But at dockside, the carrier was most vulnerable to fire damage, and entirely dependent on outside help. At the naval inquiry, Lieut. Milano admitted that 42 small fires had been snuffed out aboard Constellation before last week's holocaust...
...point, water from the fire hoses caused the big ship to list 4° to starboard, but the crew was able to bring her back to a 2° list by flooding portside compartments. Inspecting the gutted queen the next day, Navy Secretary William Franke found the flight deck catapults and most of the electronic equipment ruined, the 1¾-in.-thick steel main deck badly buckled. Total damage was reckoned at $75 million...
...first aircraft carrier, the 17,000-ton Minas Gerais*, her new skipper, Captain Helio Leoncio Martins, called the ship "a powerful arm for the defense of Brazil and the Americas." While he spoke, the first of 58 pilots who will fly from the carrier's canted deck were arriving at Key West, Fla., Naval Air Station for six months' training on the twelve Grumman 52F tracker planes and six Sikorsky 555 helicopters donated by the U.S. as the Minas Gerais' air group. By May, the flattop and her accompanying destroyers will be on station in the South...