Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the court continued to sit last week, while the mothership Lucia remained disgracefully at anchor, the Atlantic Fleet, including four motherless submarines, steamed off for the West Indies...
...Roosevelt Lines' fleet of 18 Government-owned motorships operating to Australia, India, the Philippines and the Far East, the deal adds I. M. M.'s consolidated fleet of 46 steamers. At present I. M. M. is the U. S. agent of its once greatest unit, White Star. While it no longer owns the White Star's big three, it still has many an interesting ship. Of these, especially famed are: 1) Pennsylvania, California, and Virginia, turbo-electrics operated by Panama Pacific Line, the largest U. S.-built ships of their type; 2) Minnetonka and Minnewaska of Atlantic Transport Lines...
...knew that any wireless message sent from Fiji would be intercepted by the German warships, so I gave instructions for the following words to be wirelessed in English to H. M. S. Australia, flagship of the Australian fleet: THANKS FOR MESSAGE. SHALL EXPECT YOU EARLY TOMORROW...
...craft, each with two 500-h. p. Fiat engines-preparing twelve of them for a single flight of 1,860 mi. to Natal, Brazil. In formation of four triads, each designated by a wing-color (red, black, green, white) and each plane manned by a crew of four, the fleet was to take off with the full moon of New Year week. From Natal they may fly on to Bahia and Rio de Janeiro. The journey from Orbetello to Bolama consumed one week. Six of the flying boats (including General Balbo's) were forced down by storm...
...Emily Haag Buck of Manhattan; in Jersey City. Best man: President Thomas Nesbitt McCarter of Public Service Corp. of New Jersey. Appointed. Capt. Albert B. Randall, master of S. S. George Washington: to be master of S. S. Leviathan and commodore of United States Lines' fleet succeeding Commodore Harold A. Cunningham, retiring; Capt. George Fried, master of S. S. America, to be master of S. S. George Washington. Four-days after Captain Randall's elevation, the George Washington was rammed in a fog by the Danish motorship, Malaya, ten miles from Hamburg, whither tugs towed her safely...