Word: fogged
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fog-Eyes...
Early reports generally agreed that there was a heavy fog at the time. If so, it is difficult to explain why the squadron was proceeding at 20 knots. However, in a despatch to the Navy Department Admiral Coontz, Commanding the U. S. Fleet, said...
...dense fog; nine o'clock in the evening; the Santa Barbara Channel; 19 vessels of Destroyer Division 11 of the Battle Fleet speeding southward, bound from San Francisco to the San Diego base; 20 knots speed. Suddenly the leading boat struck the rocks, then the next, the next, the next. . . Seven were aground, piled on the rocks and beach, neatly at intervals of about 250 feet. The Delphy's siren warned the other twelve from the rocks...
...Fog and treacherous cross currents while the vessels were running by dead reckoning were alleged as the cause of the wreck. The destroyers were 20 miles off their course...
...important types of observation were possible. Army and Navy aviators, from their headquarters at Rockwell Field, San Diego, mounted from 16,000 to 20,000 feet, above the clouds and fog, flew out over the ocean, snapped the eclipse at 80-mile intervals previously mapped out between Santa Barbara and San Lower California. Each plane was manned by a pilot and a photographer. Lieut. John Macready, transcontinental non-stop flyer, and George Stephens, the Army's crack photographer, ran into a heavy rainstorm and secured nothing. But aviators from the battle fleet squadrons, under command of Captain V. Marshall, secured...