Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...activity was intense. Men, who by their very dress, proved themselves to be no native mariners, were making ready for the departure of the craft. Another weighted donkey drew up, discharged his cargo, departed. The group about the shore increased as word about the town had spread that the fleet was in readiness to sail...
Japan's Commander of the Combined Fleet Vice Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu arrived in Manchukuo's port of Dairen last week at the head of all the Emperor's war boats. Said he: "Manchukuo must build an ocean fleet when her finances are better...
...America's Cup with Valkyrie III, he first charged that the owners of the defending yacht Defender had had ballast secretly and unfairly added at night, then that she had fouled Valkyrie at the start of the second race, and that the crowding of the spectator fleet endangered him. After crossing the line at the start of the third race, he withdrew unexpectedly and forfeited the series. After a celebrated "trial," in which Lord Dunraven failed to prove his charges, he was expelled from honorary membership in the New York Yacht Club for conduct unbecoming a gentleman...
...Contest." The spectator's fleet in Newport Harbor made it, said a destroyer captain, "worse than Shanghai Basin." Surrounded by every conceivable kind of ocean-going craft was a quorum of all the big yachts in U. S. waters. They trailed out toward a buoy nine miles southeast of Brenton's Reef Lightship for the start of the race. Among a fleet of 500 or more, were half a dozen ocean liners, two cruisers H. M. S. Dragon and U. S. S. Minneapolis, 20 or more Coast Guard cutters and Navy destroyers. The Committee boat had already signalled...
...back as fast as it could. But the Champlain could not get back in time to answer the SOS of the liner Morro Castle, save Madam Minister Owen and her benefactor the embarrassment of explaining to Delaware's Republican Senator Hastings why "the gem of the Coast Guard fleet was taken from its regular station near the scene of the disaster and sent on a needless junket...