Word: decks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys" and a boatswain's mate to ''pipe the side" in the starboard accommodation ladder gangway, as part of the ceremony in formally receiving commissioned officers and distinguished civil officials, is a hangover from the time when ships had no accommodation ladders and guests reached the deck seated in a boatswain's chair attached to a whip. Orders to "walk away handsomely" on the whip were given through the boatswain's pipe (whistle...
...come from public works appropriations, will be kept separate from the $238,000,000 already allotted for the building of new ships. Most important craft to be modernized: the battleships California, Colorado, Maryland. Tennessee and West Virginia. They will be equipped with hull "blisters" against mines and torpedoes, stronger deck protection against air attack, new boilers, new fighting equipment...
...Caruso sang it in Liberty Loan drives. Elsie Janis sang it in France from the back of a truck. The first U. S. troops to land in England marched in review to it before Ambassador Page and Admiral Sims. British soldiers sang it when they were lined up on deck waiting to be taken off the torpedoed troop ship Tyndarius. They sang it after the Armistice when they marched across the bridge into Cologne. In London the massed bands of the Guards play it even now when Britain's notables gather on the Mall to do honor...
Rated according to length, Class A contains boats over 50 feet on deck; Class B specifications calling for boats of from 35 to 50 feet over all; and smaller craft entering the C class. Three 10-meter sloops and a Larchmont O boat have been entered in Class A, two cutters, a schooner, and a sloop making up Class B, and two yawls and a sloop forming the last class. Prizes are to be given for class winners and division winners, the classes being split into racing and cruising categories...
President Machado's private gunboat, the S. S. Juan Brunozay, was in Havana Harbor last week with steam up. Sailors were very busy about the deck. The rumor flashed through Havana that Gerardo Machado was about to skip the country. President Machado thereupon broke a silence of many months by inviting U. S. correspondents to the Presidential Palace to hear a statement. His sallow, pocked face broke into a friendly grin as he insisted that he had not the slightest intention of either resigning or running away...