Word: hulk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doom Deferred. Huge and helpless in the slow swells, the hulk of the Yorktown did not sink. Buckmaster ordered tugs and salvage vessels. The next day 160 picked men reboarded the carrier. They worked all night pumping out holds and cutting guns from the lower side. The destroyer Hammann was standing by to furnish power for the pumps. The next noon a Jap sub launched two torpedoes into the carrier's weakened plates and sank the destroyer with two more. The concussion broke several men's feet. Lieut. Commander Ernest Davis was blown overboard. Many men had broken...
...lined their shoes in orderly rows on the flight deck. As Captain Sherman followed the last of his crew overboard, another explosion shook the ship. A little later, lest she fall into Jap hands or endanger other ships, a U.S. destroyer torpedoed the Lexington's flaming hulk. "That," said Admiral Sherman, "was the end of the Lexington...
Since February, midtown New Yorkers have looked glumly or angrily out of their west windows at the hulk of the great U.S.S. Lafayette, née Normandie, slumbering sow-like on her left flank in the Hudson River mud. All over the huge, ravaged hull workmen have been clambering, dissecting the dead thing, hauling away in antlike loads the three smokestacks and most of the two upper decks. People thought salvage was under...
Begetters of CAP were Gill Robb Wilson, World War I flyer, poet, New Jersey State aviation director; Guy Gannett. Maine newspaper publisher; Thomas H. Beck, huge, booming-voiced president of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. Chief executive is another hulk of a man, Earle Johnson of Ohio, 6 ft. 4½ in., newly commissioned a captain in the Army Air Force...
...stern of the Jacob Jones broke off and sank, leaving the center section afloat. Dozens of men were in the water, some of them looking for rafts and calling for help. Seaman Dors left his raft, swam back to the hulk, tried to cut more rafts loose. He failed. When the water reached his ankles he shoved off again, found another raft. The rest of the "Jakie" went down with a mighty explosion that tossed nearby swimmers into the air like popcorn. The sun was high in the sky when a rescue boat found the survivors: Dors and ten other...