Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main fleet is the basis upon which our naval strategy rests, but the cover it can provide is rarely complete, and it may always be expected that detached enemy units may evade the main fleet and carry out sporadic attacks on territories and trade. To deal with these attacks, considerable numbers of cruisers are required over and above those forming part of the main fleet...
Without weighing the improbability of an enemy coming singly to a port known to be guarded by a powerful fleet, this worthy commander blew frightened blasts on his whistle all the way in, warning no less than 15 other ships of the Spanish monster...
High over the ocean came federal bombing planes from the mainland, to zoom down on the rebel fleet anchored at Suda Bay. One bomb landed squarely on the bridge of the Averoff, an explosion that caused howls of dismay in London...
...Five Persons in a Landscape said to be the only miniature ever painted by Jean Antoine Watteau. Prize of the collection is The Armada Jewel, a minuscule painting sent by Queen Elizabeth to Sir Francis Walsingham, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, for his help in outfitting the English fleet that defeated Spain. The jewel's face bears a gold relief profile bust of the Queen. Inside the reverse side is another portrait of Elizabeth by Nicholas Milliard. On the back is an enamel picture of the Ark, floating safely on a calm...
Nobody has yet been accused of murdering Corpse No. 1, a peculiar feature of the case being that Fleet Street publishers are pestered by a man who insists: "They found the letters F O R D on the brown paper around the torso, didn't they? Well my name is OFFORD and I've been in the white slave game, see? I'm not afraid of Sir Bernard Spilsbury or Scotland Yard. They'll never find out who that woman was, see? And they can't touch me until they identify...