Word: fleetness
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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...
...fleet of oyster pirates, consisting of twenty well-armed vessels, has been captured off the coast of Virginia...
...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...
...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...
Wrecked is the fleet in sad disaster...