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...Randall, Leverett coxswain, whose position Miss Grube endangered, saw the abortive attempt to muscle in as a 'Cliffe conspiracy to reassert its position on the Charles, lost last spring when the Annex boats officially entered permanent drydock as a result of financial inadequacies...
...Renault, who went by the name "Rémy," among other names, organized a network of intelligence agents in occupied France. His territory included the entire Atlantic coast, from Dieppe to Bayonne. The raid on the French coast at Bruneval and the raid in force that crippled the great drydock at St.-Nazaire (denying any haven outside Germany to the battleship Tirpitz), were carried out with the aid of reports received from...
Steamboat round the Bend. The Greene Line Steamers, Inc. announced that the 250-ft. steamer Delta Queen, which it bought last year from the U.S. Maritime Commission, will soon go into drydock in preparation for Mississippi River service. Launched in Glasgow in 1924, the steel-hulled Queen has served most of her time as a West Coast ferry. In her new role as one of the Mississippi's few extant sternwheelers, she will offer -air-conditioned accommodations for up to 200 passengers on trips between Cincinnati and New Orleans...
...Mary had been the sleekest ornament in the luxury passenger service seemed almost like another age. For all the long war years the Mary's career had been grim and dedicated. But last week her widow's weeds were gone. After nine months of beauty treatments in drydock, she shone bridelike again as she glided away from a Southampton pier to take a two-day trial...
...Authorized the Secretary of the Navy to transfer 271 naval vessels, with necessary drydock, to China...