Word: dreadnought
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...full salvo on her trials, was exaggerated into a kind of saltwater One Hoss Shay. He knows how the little torpedo boat Tomoduru, which, because it was overloaded with guns and torpedo tubes and had insufficient displacement, tipped over on steam trials, was exaggerated into a great turtle-turning dreadnought, built from stolen plans...
...pictures were rushed to a big port-complexioned Briton, Sir Richard Peirse, Chief of the Bomber Command. Knocking out his pipe and shutting off his notoriously favorite pipe dream-a dreadnought bomber with high enough ceiling, great enough speed and sure enough armament to make any fighter useless-Air Marshal Peirse set "interpretive experts" to work plotting the exact location of ships, number of planes necessary for a thorough job, other mechanical details. Then Sir Richard sat down with his staff and Fighter and Coastal Command liaison officers to discuss tactics: time and place of rendezvous, level of attack, number...
...Abroad the Germans were threatening U.S. and British command of the Atlantic: Dakar was already almost in Nazi grasp; one of Britain's proudest ships had gone down before a new German dreadnought off Greenland and the proudest ship of the German Navy had been sunk by the British off Brest (see p. 21); Germany's top admiral and the Japanese were talking of war if the U.S. gave further naval help to Britain (see p. 27). Unless the U.S. once again took a firm stand for freedom of the seas (see p. 14), the U.S. might...
...last week, the U. S.'s "Big Navy" was just big enough to keep its defensive watch in the Pacific and a small squadron in the uncertain Atlantic. Its 15 battleships made up the most powerful battle line of any navy, but the average dreadnought age is 23 years. Three were so far outdated that Congress was asked to vote money to modernize their guns and armor. In the impressive total of destroyers were 109 World War I veterans, recently recommissioned. The U. S. was behind both Great Britain and Japan in the important categories of cruisers and carriers...
...After they had swept up the supposedly correct number (20) of mines, they let their ships go out through the field and one of the extra mines blew up the cruiser Hampshire, with War Secretary Earl Kitchener aboard. Other submarine-mining triumphs of 1914-18 were sinking the British dreadnought Audacious off the Irish Coast; also S. S. Laurentic, with ?5,000,000 in gold aboard to pay for U. S. munitions. And a U-boat mine sank the U. S. armored cruiser San Diego right near Fire Island off the New York coast...