Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...properly to toast King Edward was the burden of a fleet order last week. Britain's Kings have been toasted by the King's officers sitting down since the days when Britain's wooden ships gave a man so little headroom between decks that he could not stand up at mess. Last week this rule was modified to the extent that when the King's toast is drunk with toasts to the heads of foreign States, all must be drunk standing...
Cried Sir Osmond Grattan Esmonde, pro-British Member from Waterford: "Since you know you cannot defend yourself with such a force, you are relying on the British fleet for protection...
Thirty years ago the French Grand Banks fleet comprised 12,000 fishermen. It now numbers 4,000, manning 30 steam trawlers which set out last month, 30 schooners which set sail last fortnight. The Church bestows its most solemn blessings on the fleet, with full consciousness that some of the boats may never return from the North Atlantic. Although the death toll diminishes steadily, last year four schooners were lost. Of the seven ships which have successively been sent out by the Société des Oeuvres de Mer, two have foundered...
...Breton fishermen, his parishioners include 1,500 Portuguese and some Faroe Islanders. Resting last week at the Dinard monastery after a lecture tour in which his Paris appearance was the last of 60, the good curé delayed his departure only in order to fetch the fleet its first batch of mail. Later, with the St. Yves plying between the Banks boats and St. Pierre-Miquelon and Godthaab in Greenland, Father Yvon will bring more mail and necessary supplies. Officially the St. Yves is a hospital ketch, equipped for surgical operations. It also contains an altar, but many...
What Father Yvon wants most, he told French audiences last week in his rough-&-ready sailor's voice, is up-to-date radio equipment whereby he can pick up and rebroadcast to the whole fleet news, storm warnings, musical entertainment...