Word: knot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back from her final sea trials off Rockland, Me. last week, the 26,454-ton, 723-foot, 24-knot America was turned over to tall, horse-faced John Merryman Franklin, U. S. Lines president. As his pen lifted from the $7,328,140 mortgage, an estimated $750,000 worth of yearly interest and amortization charges began to tick. Shipowner Franklin had already paid in $4,396,629 for his ship. The Maritime Commission was standing a third of her cost, and the rest was a Maritime Commission loan. Now that he had her, what was he going to do with...
...construction, hold records for speed and altitude. Their cruisers and destroyers are supposed to go in heavily for smoke screens and seldom venture beyond the range of supporting torpedo planes from land bases. Lightly armored, many of the cruisers sacrifice radius of action for speed as high as 40 knots for the light types. These are for fighting in the Mediterranean, along with swarms of 50-knot motor torpedo boats and small submarines. Other cruisers, designed to raid on the high seas if and when Gibraltar and Suez are forced, can range 10,000 miles without refueling...
smooth, seamless hull (in contrast to the overlapping plate hull of a riveted ship) will boost her scheduled 16½knot speed...
...anchorman, around whose hip-belt the rope passed to a double-hitch... had to observe the opposing team. . . . He gave signals verbally or by facial signs and he had the all-important job of taking in the slack or letting out the rope, by skillful handling of the 'knot.' Anchormen sometimes had knee trouble and broken arches but not heart strain...
...fuel for the carburetors of Germany started up the Danube, muscle for the police of Rumania passed down the Rhone. Three motor torpedo boats of the swift (47-knot) type which Great Britain has built by the dozen for service in the Channel, the Mediterranean and perhaps the Baltic, were sold by Britain to Rumania this winter. When ice left the rivers of France, up the Seine right through Paris snored these swift and lethal little craft. Turning out of the Seine into the Yonne just below Montereau it is possible to navigate that stream to the Armanc,on, continue...