Word: hull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...created one of the most audacious assaults that Antarctica ever defeated. Shackleton sailed from Buenos Aires in October 1914, with 69 dogs, no radio transmitter, and a motley crew of 27 volunteers. He put his faith in Endurance, a barkentine (144 ft. long, 25 ft. wide) with a reinforced hull and 350-h.p. auxiliary steam engine. Three months later Endurance was in the Weddell Sea, a vast, bowl-shaped scoop in the Atlantic coast of Antarctica, and there the ice packs began kneading...
...Beam. To build a true, fishlike sub, the Navy scrapped all remaining vestiges of surface-ship design. The first test vehicle was the Albacore, built in 1953-a small (200 ft.) diesel-electric boat with extra-powerful batteries and a fat, well-streamlined hull. The Albacore's purpose was to use battery power extravagantly in short underwater spurts and find out what a true submarine could do. The performance was so good that the next step was obvious: to combine a nuclear engine with an Albacore hull...
...better than 1,000 ft., the ship has a comparatively thin layer of water in which to maneuver. Cruising at 40 knots (67½ ft. per second) close to her depth limit, a slight error in the up-and-down steering will carry her down to hull-crushing depths in seconds...
This season the Black Hawks started off in their usual fashion-miserably. As center on the first line, young (20) Bobby Hull proved too fast for Lindsay and Litzenberger and wore them out. Coach Rudy Pilous decided something had to be done. He put Sloan at center, and the Black Hawks promptly performed the prodigious feat of walloping the league-leading Montreal Canadiens on their home ice. They have lost only 17 of 47 games since...
...KNOT-SHIP design has been ordered from Grumman Aircraft by the Maritime Administration. The 100-ft. test craft, weighing between 50 and 100 tons, will use hydrofoils, completely submerged winglike structures that raise the vessel's hull from the water, cut down resistance...