Word: gunboat
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...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...
...Commander of the British Gunboat Cockchafer forced under threat of bombardment the highest military leaders in the Province of Szechwan to walk in full dress uniform behind the coffin of Edwin G. Hawley, a citizen of the U. S. who had been killed by Chinese junk men. They were likewise compelled to attend the burial service...
...Federal gunboat Bravo (Hurrah !) arrived at Puerto Mexico, en route to Frontera, which was reported to be held by a small rebel force, with or without de la Huerta. "The Bravo will attack Frontera. Then, as Campeche has surrendered, the Federal forces will make a big drive against the State of Tabasco...