Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...communiqué from which three facts appeared. First that the British were now receiving the first official intimation that the L55 was ever sunk. Second that the Admiralty had announced on June 12, 1919, eight days after the sinking, that a submarine (unnamed) was missing from the British Baltic Fleet. Third, that the relatives and next of kin of the Britishmen lost on the L55 were privily notified...
...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...
...Appointed. Captain Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, commander of the S. S. Beren-garia, to succeed the late Sir James T. W. Charles as commodore of the Cunard Steamship Fleet...
...each of the seven seas, tankers of Standard Oil of New York meet tankers of Royal Dutch-Shell Oil, bow and do not speak. Last week, Standard Oil of New Jersey reminded the two great rivals that neither has the world's largest tank fleet. The Chester O. Swain, acquired last week and named for a director of the New Jersey Standard, is the company's 96th tanker, the 40th operated under the U. S. flag...
Died. Capt. Sir James T. W. Charles, 62, famed commodore of the Cunard fleet; in Southampton, England, just after he had taken the Aquitania across the Atlantic; of an internal hemorrhage. He had intended to retire after this voyage of the Aquitania and 48 years...