Word: dreadnought
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...guns of the dreadnought Duilio were booming and belching smoke, fire and steel. In the turret, a boom and a belch sounded above the rest: a 305-millimetre* gun had blown up: 7 were killed, 30 wounded. The ship immediately caught fire. The magazines were flooded as a precautionary measure but the fire was extinguished before irreparable damage was caused. The accident was due to a backfire into an imperfectly closed breach...
Clare Fames is an admirable foil as Lady Macbeth, sharp and thrusting as a dagger against Hackett's tremendous battle-axe personality. Moffat Johnston (as Macduff) and the supporting company are well chosen. The massive settings suit this dreadnought production. Hackett has even arranged appropriate incidental music to show his complete mastery of the play...
Headed by the dreadnought Arkansas, flagship of Rear Admiral Archibald H. Scales, the battleships Florida, Delaware and North Dakota arrived in Copenhagen for a ten-day visit...
...first Aerial Dreadnought is being built for the British Air Ministry. Some of its main features include living quarters, electric illumination, an electric capstan controlling a 125-pound anchor, two water-tight transverse bulkheads, sleeping quarters for five, a chart room...
...Uncle Sam and John Bull are cautiously sounding each other's attitude; Japan is keenly observant. Underneath the plans and appropriations for bigger navies lies the fundamental doubt as to whether expenditure is defensible. What hesitancy there exists is largely due to the increasingly questionable value of the modern dreadnought in warfare, for as a naval weapon it is being rapidly superseded by the other and more effective implements...