Word: drydocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commodore Worrall R. Carter, the bald, bony-faced commander of Service Suadron 10, had six types of naval repair ships at Ulithi (one for radio and radar alone). His flotilla included a drydock for destroyers, tenders to make emergency repairs on big ships like bomb-blasted Franklin, Ticonderoga and Intrpid. He claimed that Ulithi's water-taxi service, which ran between ships and shore was the world's largest - more than 400 small boats manned by more than 1,000 coxswains...
McCain would follow his opposite number, 58-year-old Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher, into drydock. Last week "Pete" Mitscher, who commanded Task Force 58, brooded at a Washington desk. The middle of next month he takes over as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations...
Washington claimed two direct hits on "a Japanese ship that was in the drydock for repairs," an obvious hint that the Japs might soon find naval repairs impossible anywhere south of Japan itself...
Dowson was reared in the quaint, foggy, family home that stood on one of the wings of the family drydock in east London's Limehouse. Tuberculous Father Alfred Dowson was far more interested in talking with his friends, Algernon Swinburne and Robert Louis Stevenson, than in keeping "Dowson's" shipshape. Mother Annie Dowson, who was also tuberculous, nursed her lungs in retiring despondency. In winter the sickly parents took their sickly child to the Riviera. There he learned the classical Latin line that framed his work ever afterward, and discovered French literature and the way of life that...
Besides his salvage business, Captain John Roen owns the Roen Steamship Co. and its six ships (tugs and barges). He also owns half the stock and is president of the Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., which is now building $10,000,000 worth of retrievers and refrigerator ships a year for the Army & Navy. Salvaging grosses Roen $500,000 a year...