Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Officers on watch in the British Navy wear brown kid gloves turned down at the wrist. There were hours last week when officers of the Atlantic Fleet amplified this costume with big-hammered Webley service revolvers bulging their hip pockets...
...Britain $243,000,000. That went too. Ramsay MacDonald resigned as Laborite Prime Minister and headed a coalition cabinet. France and New York arranged $400,000,000 more credit and that was exhausted while Chancellor Snowden was making drastic efforts to balance the budget. Last week the British Atlantic Fleet mutinied in protest at their prospective wage cut (see p. 20) and next day London learned that Britain's gold reserves were down to ?59,742,000. Scot MacDonald rushed up to London and summoned the House of Lords (Commons were already sitting) to an emergency session...
...fleet was anchored in Cromarty Firth, a curving 20-mi. arm of the sea bound in by grey Scotch mountains, ready to sail for autumn battle practice in the North Sea. Early in the week the 12,000 sailors of the fleet learned full details of the pay cuts imposed by the Admiralty Board in accordance with the economy plans of the National Government (TIME, Sept. 21). Because the Cabinet had given no instructions how the pay cuts were made but merely told the Admiralty the total amounts to be saved, the fleet heard last week that midshipmen and junior...
From ship to ship the message passed, from the Rodney to the Nelson, the Hood, the Repulse, the York, Dorsetshire, Norfolk, Warspite and Malaya. All eyes were on the Valiant. Would she obey orders? If she did it seemed certain that the rest of the fleet would follow. But on the Valiant boatswains piped themselves blue in the face. The crew remained below decks. Officers had an anxious huddle on the quarterdeck. Conscious that the eyes of Britain were on them, they attempted to hoist anchor themselves. Forward they found two pickets of thick-necked sailors standing guard over...
...confused with most Latin-American navies is the Chilean. Their battle fleet is modernized, the Almirante Latorre is a first-class vessel. Laid down for Chile in England in 1911, she was bought by the British at the beginning of the War and served as the Canada. Chile finally received her in 1920. In 1929 she went back to Great Britain to be overhauled, modernized...