Word: drydocking
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...like his temper−was merciless. In 1926, while directing the salvage of the submarine 8-51, sunk with 34 dead in the Atlantic off Block Island, Captain King was advised by an admiral that he would never be able to get the submarine into a relatively shallow drydock. "Sir," replied Ernie King, "we've raised her 130 feet in the open sea. We've brought her 130 miles, and I guess we can raise her a couple of feet more." King did raise the sub, and for the salvage won the first of his four Distinguished Service...
...Buckner Bay, is Vice Admiral Stuart Ingersoll's Seventh Fleet, ready to turn its carrier-keyed task force toward the first break in Asia's ominous calm (a calm that might well not exist were it not for the Seventh Fleet's presence). There, in drydock for routine overhaul at Norfolk's huge (35 admirals on duty) Navy complex, is the 60,000-ton carrier Forrestal, most powerful ship afloat, preparing to join the fleet in the fall as the Navy's champion of nuclear striking power. She is designed to land and launch bombers...
When the SeaMaster alights on its liquid runway and wants to go ashore, it will ease its slender hull between the floats of a semi-submerged "beaching vehicle." Then it will move toward shore under its own power. A more elaborate auxiliary will be a drydock that can lift the SeaMaster clear of the water when it needs major attention...
...error. Spotting a strange new hopping animal, he asked the aborigines about it, was answered with the word "Kanguroo" and never learned that the word meant "I don't understand you." After the near shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef, the Endeavour was badly in need of a drydock, and Cook put in at Jakarta (then Batavia). The two-month stay salvaged the ship but wrecked the crew. Seven men died of malaria and dysentery in the fetid port, another two dozen on shipboard as the Endeavour limped her solitary way around South Africa, back to the Thames...
...show the variety of its production, Vickers' brass like to describe a trip to an imaginary city: the visitor arrives aboard a huge ocean liner built by Vickers' shipbuilding division, steams into a harbor past Vickers fishing vessels and ties up at a pier near a Vickers drydock. Boarding a Vickers-made bus (now running in cities from Cairo to Montevideo), the sightseer travels past rows of cement kilns made by Vickers, past Vickers oil-storage tanks, Vickers rubber plants, steel mills, printing plants, bottling plants, all equipped with Vickers machinery. He tours the suburbs on a Vickers...