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Word: fleetness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present month has proved very disastrous to the Gloucester fishing fleet. Hope for the safety of four schooners has been abandoned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 3/1/1882 | See Source »

...fleet of oyster pirates, consisting of twenty well-armed vessels, has been captured off the coast of Virginia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 2/20/1882 | See Source »

...important conference of government officials, naval officers and congressmen was held yesterday, in Washington, to consider our naval needs and plans to supply them. A fleet of steel cruisers was deemed necessary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 2/17/1882 | See Source »

...press boat on that occasion (by the only man afloat who refused to obey the managers' regulations) failed to result in loss of life was little less than a miracle. Equally astonishing was the good luck of a year later, when the squall of wind forced the impatient fleet of sailboats to swoop down in the wake of the long-delayed crews, and when it seemed inevitable to those of us in the midst of it that death must also be swooping down in the darkness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO MORE FRESHMEN AT NEW LONDON. | 12/21/1880 | See Source »

Wrecked is the fleet in sad disaster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WATER-LILIES. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

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