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Soon Italy's famed Artiglio II, champion treasure-hunting ship (TIME, July 4, et ante), was called into action. Her divers reported that the Promethee lies on an even keel in 230 ft. of water where the current is exceedingly swift. Twice the divers' telephone connection with the Artiglio was ripped apart by the rushing waters. They expressed a professional opinion that it will be impossible to raise the Promethée, said that they found her hatches open, conjectured that an explosion may have ripped open the Promethée's stern, thus causing...
After the completion of one shell which has been under construction at Newell boat house for the past term, the keel for another has been laid, with a view to completing the second boat by the end of the next term. As a shell is being sent from Pocock's in Seattle, there will be three new shells on the river by June...
...course he adjusts the automatic device to the proper compass direction, throws in a clutch, turns his attention to weather maps, radio reports. The risk of blind flying is eliminated; the automatic pilot requires no visibility to remain on course and on even keel. Moreover, the device flies a plane more smoothly than a human. At the beginning of a flight a human pilot can make about 50 corrections per minute; after flying for a long period he can make only about 20. The robot never tires, begins correcting a variation the instant it occurs...
...America's Cup in 1920, and Gerard B. Lambert's Vanitie, Resolute's rival in the 1920 trials. There were half a dozen Class M sloops-Walter Keith Shaw's Andiamo, sluggish in races the week before the cruise till her captain removed from her keel 100 ft. of lobster line and two lobster pots; Harold Vanderbilt's Prestige, Floyd Leslie Carlisle's Avatar, and Commodore of the New York Yacht Club Winthrop Williams Aldrich's Valiant, all with shiny new duralumin masts; and Chandler Hovey's wooden-masted Istalena.* There were...
...visible to the outsider are countless other details which make the Akron unique. The keels, for instance: instead of just one along the bottom, from nose to tail, the Akron has three-one under the top of the envelope, the two others along the sides, about a quarter of the way up from the bottom. Through each keel frame runs a triangular catwalk, the upper one giving access to the safety release valves above the helium bags. The lower ones serve as corridors to the engine rooms, airplane hangar, crew quarters, galley, messrooms; leading forward to the mooring apparatus...