Word: flagship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newly constructed 27-foot speed launch "Red Top," destined to be the flagship for Coach E. J. Brown '96, has been lost at sea, it was reported yesterday. The powerboat left Greenport, Long Island, early last Saturday morning to make the voyage to Cambridge. It was piloted by two men, one of them the designer of the craft, and was expected to complete the run by Monday afternoon. After passing through the Cape Cod canal, however, the "Red Top" and its crew disappeared...
...search of Commander Clark's own flagship, the Concord, and of the destroyer Sands and the repair ship Dobbin, discovered four more baggages. They said they were Billy Lacer, Rose McQuire, Flossie Rice, Ramilda Avery, "waitresses from Philadelphia." They had been sneaked aboard at New Orleans. Commander Clark led his ships into Key West. The waitresses were disembarked. Courts martial began...
...accused was Commander Henry Martin Daniel. As a subordinate of Rear Admiral Collard aboard the flagship Royal Oak, he is charged with making known to brother officers complaints against the conduct of Rear Admiral Collard which were embodied in a letter written by Captain K. G. B. Dewar of the Royal Oak to superior naval officials. The act of making known the contents of this secret letter laid open Commander Daniel to the grave, technical charge of "subverting discipline by bringing a superior officer into contempt...
Even the King was perturbed. He called the First Lord of the Admiralty, William Clive Bridgeman, to Buckingham Palace and asked for details. Meanwhile the British public was flabbergasted by reports that there had been a "mutiny" aboard H. M. S. Royal Oak, Flagship of the First Battle Squadron of the British Mediterranean Fleet...
...interesting was the case of Rear Admiral Brumby, on whose behalf it was contended that he had not been technically made a defendant in the trial and that the equivocal findings did not justify censuring him. While the subject of this discussion steamed out of Balboa, Panama, on his flagship, the cruiser Camden, to oversee Control Force maneuvers at the Perlas Islands last week, observers studied the court of inquiry's alleged paradox to see why it should have puzzled the Navy Department...