Word: flagship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rear Admiral G. F. Hyde, commander-in-chief of the Royal Australian Navy, docked in New York harbor his flagship, the 10,000-ton Australia. His sailors did the city, the shows and Coney Island. He and some of his officers watched polo matches on Long Island. Then the Australia steamed away to pay a visit to the U. S. naval academy...
Richard Evelyn Byrd's flagship City of New York left for two much-advertised years in Antarctica (TIME, Aug. 20.) Before departure he sent hurry calls to complete the paraphernalia of a miniature civilization stowed aboard the vessel. The list made up by Chief Physician Dr. Francis Dana Coman, of Johns Hopkins, and presented to Charles Capehart, President of the Association Against Impure Liquor, read as follows...
...goaded French Line: "Various giant liners, of various lines, have suffered this unavoidable misfortune. ... It is to be hoped that there will soon be an end to the unauthentic . . . unwarranted . . . utterly false . . . rumors . . . now coming, we presume, from sources interested in undermining the position of our new flagship. . . . The turbines of the Ile de France were built in England by the most famous manufacturers of these intricate machines...
...Arthur Henry Rostron, rescuer-hero of the Titanic disaster,* flew his newly-acquired Commodore's burgee from the mainmast as the Cunard flagship Berengaria entered New York harbor. He succeeds the late Sir James Thomas Walter Charles, commander of the Aquitania, as chief of the Cunard fleet. Said he: "I have a real sorrow to think that I could not fly the commodore's burgee while Sir James was still alive. He was a fine seaman and a gentleman. The commodore's flag I have was his personal flag. One of the last orders he issued...
...becomes the flagship of the New York Yacht Club, of which Vincent Astor is Commodore for 1928 (TIME, Feb. 6). In many ways, Commodore Astor is the perfect yachtsman. The management of his real estate properties is not sufficiently arduous to prevent his spending days and weeks contemplating the sea from one of the three decks of the "Light of My Soul." It might indeed be impossible for the perfect yachtsman to be a mentally aggressive fur-trader and land-getter, as was Commodore Astor's famed great-grandfather, John Jacob Astor...