Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring of 1898, Spanish Admiral Pascual Cervera, handicapped by wretched ships, equipment and support, sailed his rusty little fleet of four cruisers and three destroyers across the Atlantic, straight through the operations centre of an over whelmingly superior U. S. fleet set to catch him, and safe into harbor at Santiago, Cuba without once sighting or being sighted by a U. S. warship. Navy censor ship hid that inglorious episode from the U, S. public, gagged war correspondents for another fortnight while the Navy made up its mind as to just where Cervera was. After Commodore Winfield Scott Schley...
...foreign competitors; 2) to stimulate the building of new U. S. ships by giving subsidies up to 50% of a vessel's cost to equalize the high price of shipbuilding in the U. S. with the low price abroad. Other tasks include getting rid of the rusting Wartime fleet of 162 ships left by the Shipping Board. The temporary commissioners announced in January that none of these 17-year-old tubs, unused for ten years, would be sold since that would be a "deterrent" to new building. Most will be scrapped, some kept afloat in case...
...Commission also will regulate wages and working conditions on subsidized ships, sell or charter five Government-owned lines and decide whether the U. S. should help finance a fleet of airships like the Hindenburg...
...walked off the steamer Katori Maru at Yokohama, saying they had "gone on strike as a patriotic protest because the N.Y.K. last Oct. 29 failed to order all its ships in all parts of the world to hoist the Rising Sun flag while the Emperor was reviewing the Grand Fleet." This inconveniences Emperor Hirohito who intends that the Heian Maru, off which the strikers also walked, shall carry his brother Prince Chichibu to represent Japan at the Coronation in London. To be sure the strikers know this well enough, were only slyly holding up the N.Y.K. for higher...
Died. Admiral Henry Thomas Mayo, 79, U.S.N. retired, Wartime Commander in Chief of the Atlantic Fleet; of heart disease; at the Portsmouth, N. H. home...