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...locate radar and radio sources, Pueblo employed the twin antennas mounted forward of the wheelhouse. Domelike direction finders and "tropo-scattering" sensors (which can "read" signals bouncing from the troposphere) are mounted on the foremast to analyze those signals and to eavesdrop on radio communications. The ship is equipped to test salinity levels, temperatures and algae growth in various parts of the Sea of Japan-all valuable information for sonar operators. Pentagon photos of Pueblo taken after the ship's renovation in Bremerton, Wash., show advanced low-frequency antennas that would permit the ship to communicate with U.S. nuclear...
...veteran seamen aboard. Last week, homeward bound from B.A., she was struck by the full (127-knot) force of Carrie, which the skipper had not expected to hit for a full two hours. Even as Captain Johannes Diebitsch barked his orders to douse sail, the blocks jammed on the foremast, broaching the bark broadside to the wind. In the nightmare of ripping canvas and splintering timber, much of the vessel's cumbersome top hamper came crashing down, covering the deck with a lethal spiderweb of flailing steel cables. Heavy wooden yardarms slashed right and left, battering lifeboats and rafts...
...into Suez and took on veteran Egyptian Pilot Mahmoud Metwali. The Jackson paid $10,295 in tolls with a polite note indicating that she was obeying U.S. Government instructions to pay under protest. Then, with the U.S. flag flying at the stern and the green Egyptian flag at the foremast truck, President Jackson steamed slowly northward into the canal at the head of a convoy of four ships. Mahmoud Younis, manager of Egypt's Suez Canal administration, wired the twelve passengers a Happy Easter and a pleasant trip. At Ismailia, U.S. Lieut. General Raymond A. Wheeler left his office...
...dazzling day last week, the 40-year-old gunboat Cuba steamed out of Havana harbor, coasting close under the grey, weathered walls of Morro Castle, and set course northeast through the blue Atlantic. At her foremast flew a pennant the Cuban breezes had not played with for seven years: the blue, white, red, yellow and green personal banner of General Fulgencio Batista. Aboard the Cuba was the general himself. He was headed for an Easter weekend holiday with his family on palm-lined Varadero Beach...
...Chief Petty Officer Cook had turned a valve, and "steam as hot as red-hot iron" had emerged from the ship's boilers at 400º and heated a 40-gallon cauldron of soup. Chief Petty Officer O'Flaherty was delicately keeping a director sight upon the foremast of the enemy flagship: "With every microscopic variation of the ... sight ... six guns moved too . . . five hundred tons of steel and machinery swaying to each featherweight touch...