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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...
...known to his classmates as a sober young man, nicknamed "Sprew," who always got seasick on summer cruises. High in his class, he was selected to study electrical engineering at Schenectady. Afterwards he served briefly in China and returned to a shore-based job at Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock...
...that was fearful to behold. Even Moscow never lifted such an ack-ack barrage. Captured German pilots admitted that they had been unnerved by it. It probably saved the island from devastation, saved many a British warship and transport as she lay in the harbors or squatted helplessly in drydock...