Word: gunboat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later the new Chairman called upon the Chilean and Peruvian delegates between whom he is to preside. The Peruvians toasted him aboard the Peruvian gunboat, Rimac. The Chileans feted him on shore. For the time being felicitations took the place of strife and even halted the work of the Plebiscite Law Committee...
...Greek Government, grateful to my father for his work as Chairman of the Greek Refugees' Commission established by the League of Nations, had promised to place a gunboat at our disposal for the crossing from Corinth to Itea. Unfortunately the gunboat would not work and the Greek Government could only supply us with an auxiliary tender 65 feet long...
...light blue. In the office, a score of clerks were visible through a glass door, bending over desks and adding machines, all accoutred in blue denim smocks; behind a door marked "Private" bustled J. P. Benkard himself in a blue denim smock; and out on the runners' bench "Gunboat" Smith, onetime prizefighter, now Mr. Benkard's head runner, simpered in a blue denim smock...
...efficient crew of 20 men on board and two days' fuel. Lieutenant Booth, , the officer in charge, had never commanded an airship before. Within two minutes after the accident, he had two engines running, the wireless in operation, and the airship in complete control. With the British gunboat Godetia to guide her, with every vessel in the North Sea alert, the airship fought a tremendous fight for 30 hours. In touch by wireless throughout this period, she sent in reports every few minutes, followed meteorological instructions carefully and even found time to thank the landing party at Rotterdam, when...
...suppressed because of its Southern sympathies and some two years later the son ran away from Forest's Academy to enlist in the 9th Kentucky Infantry, the famous Orphan Brigade (Confederate). He fought at Chickamauga and was wounded. Then he shipped as a midshipman in the Confederate Navy. But gunboat service was not exciting enough for him. He went back to his old company and finished the war with...