Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...island had been blown across the deck. Like other vessels in the inner ring, she had been swung around so that her bow faced the detonation point. But the force which had done this had finished the Sara. The only vessel in the target array with a triple-skinned hull, she had nevertheless been ripped open below the waterline. Slowly she settled, listing ever more sharply; seven hours later the 33,000-ton carrier sank...
...afloat because of radioactivity in the water. It was another warning of what navies in the atomic age would have to face in insidious, invisible death if their ships escaped the bomb's first blast. The other chief lesson of Test Baker was that even so stout a hull as the Saratoga's was like matchwood if a bomb burst within half a mile. Transports and destroyers with much thinner skins, but twice as far away from the bomb, suffered hardly...
...final evaluation of the 70-day hearings, the Democratic majority found the military to blame, found no fault in the planning or actions of the Roosevelt Administration. In a minority report Republican Senators Ferguson (Michigan) and Brewster (Maine) blamed Franklin Roosevelt and Secretaries Hull, Stimson and Knox, but necessarily found the military commanders were also slow of head and foot...
...wherry is 19 feet long an 24 inches wide, having the oarsman's seat low in the hull. The compromise, called "comp" by those in the know, is longer, 25 feet, and narrower, 16 inches for greater speed...
...most advanced and fastest boats are called singles. These are usually 26 feet long and a bare 11 inches, wide. In both the comp and the singles the oarsman's seat is built out from the hull of the craft...