Word: decks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent maneuvers off: the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal, the United States fleet operated in complete tactical drill with the aircraft carrier Langley, 146 flights being made on and off the deck of the Langley, without casualty to plane or personnel...
When flights are undertaken, the upper deck of the Langley is completely cleared; masts and smokestacks and all other paraphernalia disappear. The Secretary of the Navy, Admirals, Captains and gobs jump into nets on the sides of the ship, with conspicuous lack of dignity, when a plane is about to alight. The getaway of an airplane is easy. But landing on the deck of the steaming war-vessel, pitching and rolling as it must, is a risky proposition. The deck looks broad to any one standing on it, but it is a mere strip to the anxious pilot...
...Anchored along the shores of rivers and other peaceful waters these ships, with the machinery taken out, should make fine houseboats. Sleep on deck in Summer, below in Winter, fine opportunity for those that live in Florida, Georgia...
When Victor Hugo, in his most dramatic vein, told the tale of a cannon that came loose from its moorings and plunged unchecked about the deck of a vessel at sea, dealing destruction to the crew, critics crowed right and left that he was the most arrant Romanticist, and that the scene was too far-fetched to carry conviction. Another of his most famous passages met with the same scepticism--the under-water battle with an octopus. Yet within six months, both of these incidents have been performed on the stage of everyday life. Last fall the newspapers told...
...great surprise, I found that, after three or four months' intensive training in actual service at sea, these experienced destroyer commanders considered these youngsters, so efficient that in many cases they entrusted them with the handling of the destroyers during their four hours' watch as officer of the deck while escorting convoys in the submarine gone...