Word: drydocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Towards the end of May, the 16,000-ton Polish luxury liner Batory moved into drydock at Hebburn-on-Tyne. That night the British harbor pilot, Harry Leslie, had dinner with cheery, gold-toothed Captain Jan Cwiklinski in his two-room suite below the bridge. But when Leslie went back on board two weeks later, the captain was missing. "The officers gave me to understand he was sick on shore," he said, "but . . . there was a studied avoidance of any mention...
...trip between the China Sea ports. He had reached a sort of understanding with the Lee Hong's captain and crew. O'Brien, who was once a ship's engineer, may get a paying berth aboard the ferry if a vacancy occurs. The ship went into drydock for its annual overhaul; O'Brien obligingly supervised the repairs. "Since I expect to be on this tub for some time yet." he said last week, "I want her to be seaworthy...
...Launch & Drydock. But he also found that despite the billions spent on the U.S. Merchant Marine, the fleet was a bad second in size to Britain's, and in poor shape. Cochrane wangled $350 million to build 35 Mariner cargo ships, the first new class of cargo ships built by the board since the war. The new class is bigger (12,500 deadweight tons) and faster (20 knots) than World War II's Victory ships. As the first Mariner slid down the ways last month, it was plain that the $350 million would be only a down payment...
Although he was confined to a Reno hospital bed last week, Nevada's blustering Senator Pat McCarran still managed -somewhat like the Queen Elizabeth whistling in drydock-to issue a blast at the State Department. At first glance, it seemed fairly routine: the Senator noted with alarm that 18 leftist U.S. labor leaders got visas for England, France and Italy last spring and then went blithely on to Moscow, took part in the Reds' May Day ceremonies and issued anti-American propaganda...
...smashed a magnum of California champagne against the bow of the biggest, fastest, most luxurious ship ever built in the U.S. Then, before 10,000 flag-waving spectators at Newport News, Va., the 51,500-ton, 990-ft. United States was "launched," i.e., she was towed from the flooded drydock in which she was built (she was too big for the ways of any U.S. shipyard) into the James River, and gently nudged by twelve tugs to her finishing pier...