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...blockade which the Chinese Nationalists have tried to impose on mainland ports since 1949 with destroyers and patrol vessels given them by the U.S. In Kaohsiung, too, were two other recent prizes-the 8,207-ton Polish tanker Praca, seized last October, and the 5,958-ton Polish freighter Prezydent Gottwald, seized...
...already sent destroyers to scour the seas off Guatemala, shadowing and photographing ships and challenging them for identification. Only vessel so far stopped (by a comic misunderstanding) was the United Fruit Co.'s banana-freighter Choluteca...
...Navy's job for the XFY-1 is to give air protection to cargo ships. Helicopters can rise from a freighter's deck, but they have little fighting potential. The XFY-1 proved last week that it can rise like a helicopter. Its engine is powerful enough to pull it up vertically with the acceleration of 20 ft. per second per second. At about 500 ft. elevation, this rate of climb will give it the speed of 100 knots (115 m.p.h.). Then it will nose over and fly horizontally...
...return to its base, the XFY-1 will rear back into a nose-up attitude; then it will sink gently to its landing space. Convair engineers are confident that it can do this even on a rolling, pitching freighter plunging through dirty weather...
Furtive Voyage. Listed on the manifest as "steel rods, optical glass and laboratory supplies," the arms, in 15,000 cases, were loaded on the freighter Alfhem in the Baltic port of Stettin, now a part of Poland. Once through the Skagerrak and out of the foggy Baltic, the vessel acted like a ship carrying hot cargo. First she laid a course south for Dakar, French West Africa, but radioed orders changed the destination to Curaçao, in the Dutch West Indies. Nearing Curaçao, the Alfhem was again diverted, this time to Puerto Cortes, Honduras. Finally the ship...