Word: drydock
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...engines, reached by a catwalk through the wings, behind which an engineer can stand to mend fuel lines, change spark plugs in flight; 3) unlike any other flying boat, once in the water it will remain there and, like a ship, emerge only for repairs in an aircraft drydock; 4) it possesses a full-size flight of stairs. It also has the world's most powerful airplane engines, four 1,500-h.p. twin-row, 14-cyl. Wright-Cyclones, any two of which will keep it aloft. At half power, they will fly the Atlantic Clipper, with 40 passengers plus...
...vessels." Later Florida's Supreme Court ruled that tin can manufacturers were exempt because a tin can is a steel vessel tincoated. Last week County Attorney J. W. Cone of Tampa ruled the Tampa Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. not exempt from taxation because their RFC-financed, 10,000-ton drydock is not exclusively or chiefly used for the manufacture of "steel vessels...
...been observed? International complications from this might be so grave that British admiralty officials "suggested," even before a committee of inquiry was constituted, that the Hunter had hit a mine. With great secrecy the Hunter, bow awash, was towed stern foremost into Gibraltar, locked in a closely-guarded drydock, where gold-visored staff officers prepared to go over her plate by plate...
...controlled note of bitterness pervades his farewell as he came away from the drydock where the Joseph Conrad lay alongside the swanky yachts which she would presently resemble when refitted by her new owner, 24-year-old G. Huntington Hartford, grandson of the A. & P. stores founder...
Away from a Baltimore pier of Maryland Drydock Co. last month churned the world's first all-fireproof ship-the chunky, white, 250-ft S.S. Catherine of Bull Steamship Line, having been taken from her regular Caribbean run and rebuilt from keel up with noncombustible materials, As if this were a monument to his regime, Director Joseph B. Weaver of the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, who was appointed by President Roosevelt to improve safety at sea after the Morro Castle fire of 1934, last week resigned his job. Said he: "I feel that the job is about...