Word: gangways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look now mates, but that's land in sight there just off the starboard how... and before noon today the mooring lines will have been made fast, the gangway put down and the crew detached. there'll be a few brief days of shore leave and then ... like John Masefield, "We must down to the seas again...
Although the PT-69's specifications are a military secret, pictures show that she is about 70 ft. long, about 16 ft. in the beam, carries two torpedo tubes and has a stern gangway for depth charges. The three engines pack enough power to run away from destroyers (i.e., 45 knots or more) except in rough weather. Since such boats have little offensive value unless used in large flotillas, the Navy may decide to put little Huckins Yacht Corp. (normal gross: less than $500,000 a year) into the defense business...
...calmly (said one survivor) "as though going down a gangway at Gibraltar," the crew took up their lifebelts and filed above. On a ladder a rating said to an officer: "Damned hard luck on the old lady, sir." The officer patted the sailor's shoulder...
Dominions Secretary Anthony Eden stood on the gangway to deliver a welcoming message from Canada's King George VI. Off his own bat, he said: "The struggle in which we are engaged may be long-it certainly will be tough-we all know that...