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Meanwhile, three Blue light cruisers and a gunboat, which were at the Atlantic entrance (having been there before war commenced) reported by wireless that they had established contact with the enemy off Porto Bello?and reported no more?indicating that they had been "destroyed." Meanwhile, the Langley (Black) had found rough water that prevented launching its aeroplanes. A few Black planes launched from a base near Porto Bello reached the Gatun locks but were driven off by anti-aircraft batteries. Ten Blue planes reached Porto Bello and attempted to bomb the Langley...
...Gunboat, Flotilla, First Mate, Flagship, Seaplane-these are the names of several of the progeny of Man o'War, one time race horse champ, who was retired in 1922. Nine of them (two-year-olds) will be eligible for competition during the 1924 season. Man o'War has 15 wives...
...beautiful foreign Princess and one Hollingsworth Chase, American adventurer. The walking delegate of the Natives' Union, local No. 1, argues that the matter may best be settled by massacring the whole white contingent. Nine or ten thousand natives are acting on his advice when an American gunboat hears the rumpus, drops a shell in the courtyard of the besieged chateau, details a platoon of marines. The masses of natives melt. The chateau, the mines, the people are saved. To make it completely safe for 100% Americanism, the Princess, foregoing her regal alliances, decides that plain Mrs. Hollingsworth Chase...
...Gopher, obsolete gunboat, and training ship of the Ninth Naval District, proceeding from Toledo up through the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River, sank in a northwest gale in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. No lives were lost. She was a wooden ship, built in 1871, carrying three 3-pounders...
American blue-jackets from a gunboat anchored nearby, who arrested 15 soldiers, but not before they had injured the captain of the vessel and three women, including the wife and daughter of the Dollar line agent...