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Word: dunkerquc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greatest hush-hush ship in line was not the Soviet battleship Marat whose comrade sailors spent most of their time exercising on parallel bars on deck, nor the Nazi pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec which served beer to visitors, but the pride of the French navy, the Dunkerquc. Only official visitors were allowed on board, and even they were rushed below decks as quickly as possible. Though only half the size of Britain's ponderous Hood, the newly completed Dunkerque, spies insist, is the fastest and most heavily armored battleship afloat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Naval Occasion | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

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