Word: flagship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, nearly 20 years after its founding as a refugee runner, ZIM added to its fleet a handsome new flagship. From St. Nazaire's Chantiers de 1'Atlantique, famed builder of the Normandie and France, it took delivery of the Shalom (Peace), a $20 million, 24,500-ton luxury liner that will make her maiden voyage to New York next month...
...calm and darkling sea last week the 20,000-ton aircraft carrier Melbourne, flagship of the Australian navy, was engaged in night maneuvers off Jervis Bay, 80 miles south of Sydney. Half a mile astern cruised the destroyer Voyager, acting as rescue ship should any of the Melbourne's planes go into the sea on takeoff or landing. Both ships were blacked out except for running lights and red masthead lights...
...words: eight close-printed pages describing everything from Nelson's birth in a Norfolk parsonage to his burial in St. Paul's. And to go with the words are eleven graphic exhibits-a map, a battle plan, paintings and a detailed cutaway drawing of Nelson's flagship Victory, plus facsimiles of a crucial Nelson memorandum of the London Times of Nov. 7, 1805, and of ten signal flags by which Nelson told his fleet in code, ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO DO HIS DUTY...
...Skeptics were reminded that Nelson's flagship Victory at Trafalgar in 1805 was manned by 16 different nationalities...
...Catholic Fahey a bit querulously, not realizing-as he did a hundred pages and 100,000 miles later-how important this could be when a man must be prepared to meet his Maker. Nobody could have been more naive than Fahey. "It is an honor to be on the flagship," he opined when he was assigned to the light cruiser Montpelier, though veteran seamen knew enough to shun it. He childishly equated a raid up the Slot in the Solomon Islands by Montpelier's task force with a sortie up the Hudson to bombard New York...