Word: hoving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clyde was submerged, chewed sweets. On the morning of June 20, the seas were running high. Mountain waves made it impossible to see at periscope depth. As the day wore on, a 30-mile-an-hour wind whipped a writhing sea. Under these most difficult conditions, the enemy hove into sight - two capital ships at two miles' separation, a destroyer screening them. Vision blotted out, the Clyde had to be brought up until the periscope standards were awash. The heavy seas made her too lively. Tons of extra ballast had to be shipped to prevent her from breaking surface...
Just after dawn a 327-ft. Coast Guard cutter hove into sight - "the most beautiful ship in the world." The cutter's crew threw ropes to men on the rafts. Some were too weak to grasp the lines. Coast Guardsmen dived into the icy water, tied ropes around them. Repeatedly the big cutter had to break off rescue operations, dash away to drop depth charges. Each time she came back. Before she sailed on the cutter had saved...
...hove to, riding out a gale, when the hurricane struck her. For a sickening moment she lay down on her side until her masts dipped into the sea. The two men on her deck grabbed lifelines and hung on. The 3070 righted herself, rolled over the other way. Her mizzenmast carried away with a crash. The 3070 floundered on across the whooping Atlantic like a drunk on a merry-go-round...
After five false starts in six months, Artist Hélion finally decided to fake a toothache. Ordered to bed one Friday the 13th, Hélion escaped while the guards were busy with the other prisoners. He got to the street in civilian clothes. A Nazi cop hove in sight. Artist Hélion immediately went up to him and asked him the time. Asked the cop: "What are you doing in a forbidden area?" Said Hélion: "I'm a worker imported from Antwerp." He added: "Where can I get a decent glass of beer...
...Napoleon arrived to loot the ancient rococo palaces and churches before he rushed on into Egypt. The French garrison held until 1800, when the English Fleet hove into view, anchored in Malta's deep harbors and took over the island...