Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Viscountess Astor, M. P. sits for the great naval port of Plymouth. When the Royal Navy staged its "greatest mutiny in 134 years" (TIME, Sept. 28), the Noble Lady was naturally distressed. Rushing down to Plymouth she arrived just as the unrepentant Atlantic Fleet steamed in. Last week Plymouth's Nancy was back in London breathless with naval news...
...first time in my life," she cried, "I saw the Atlantic Fleet given a silent reception at Plymouth! . . . But our gloom soon turned to hope when we got in touch with the men of the lower deck. I spent three days going among them, and never once came across a sailor who realized the consequences of his action. ... It is hard for anybody who does not know the British sailor to realize the simplicity of his point of view, but I assure my friends in America and elsewhere that the British Navy is as safe and sound as ever...
Many a Briton has wanted to know if the Great Mutiny sprang from small Socialist cells or Communist cankers within the Fleet. ''I asked man after man if there had been any organization," declared Lady Astor, "and they all said no, that there had been none...
...craft slid from the ways at Arendal, Norway, in the year 1886. No expense or genius was spared in her construction, for she was built to crash a path through the ice to the sealing fields, where the smaller, weaker vessels of the seal-fishing fleet could follow. 210 feet long over all, and of 31 foot beam, the sheathing of her three-foot-thick hull is of greenheart, a wood now very rare, but known for its ability to resist the tearing grind of the ice. On one of her first voyages north with the sealers, she carried...
...entire affair. Ringleaders refused to believe that once at sea they would not be sent to distant stations in punishment. It took two hours to get the anchors up. Grim laced sub-lieutenants slipped into their lockers for side arms. Correspondents passed over what happened below decks before the fleet steamed for home in one portentous sentence: "Officers were obliged to employ intensive persuasion...