Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...staysail & spanker, Lieutenant de Drambour stayed on the bridge of his ship, while the crates shifted wildly, threatened any instant to sink him. Two days after his 20th birthday he dropped anchor off Sandy Hook, welcomed by the New York World, the New York Yacht Club, the U. S. Fleet, and a spanking good dinner at the Hoffman House...
Died. Sir Edgar Theophilus Britten, 62, Commodore of the Cunard White Star fleet, captain of the Queen Mary; of apoplexy; stricken aboard ship in Southampton, England. Once locked in the Arctic ice for five months, once rammed by a Portuguese man-o'-war during an eleven-month voyage around the Horn, he never lost a life; was made George V's Naval Aide at his knighting...
...South and Central America prevailed. And it was not so long ago that he flailed the heads of many European governments, thus contributing, of course, to the general harmony. Lastly, and most pertinent today is the aggressive Eastern policy of building a navy "second to none"; sending the fleet on threatening maneuvers in the Pacific; building forts; and generally using swash-buckling tactics of the approved Prussian model; all, of course, with intention of contributing to Japan's tranquillity...
...British Government's official artists during the War, he made countless drawings both with the B. E. F. in France and with the Grand Fleet in the North Sea. Widely traveled, he has paid for most of his vacations with etchings, some of which are now worth over $1,000 apiece, of the cities he has seen. Yet for all his fame he is not above turning an honest Scottish penny in commercial magazine illustration. Pride of the Illustrated London News last June was Muirhead Bone's four-hour pen & ink sketch of the Queen Mary leaving Southampton...
Died, Admiral William Sowden Sims, 77, U.S.N. retired, Wartime Commander of the U. S. Fleet in European waters; after a heart attack; in Boston. As a Naval observer in China and St. Petersburg, he became so vociferous a critic of the efficiency of the U. S. Navy that in 1908 his friend Roosevelt I had to save him from court martial. During the War he commanded 373 ships, 81,000 men. Said he two years ago: "The sea is fine when viewed from shore . . . but I never liked going...