Word: motorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlantic's grey mists one overcast afternoon last week emerged a snug, grey-hulled motorship with red, white and blue striping on her two buff funnels, gay bunting flapping from her halyards. She was the 18,673-ton Oslofjord, new $3,000,000 flagship of the Norwegian America Line, on her maiden voyage to the land Norse Leif Ericson previewed some 938 years earlier. Leif the Lucky's 75-foot ship was a Viking man-o'-war with a single candy-striped sail and places for 35 men. The 588-foot Oslofjord is a businesslike luxury liner...
...Poland's adolescent merchant marine, the motorship Batory last week slipped into New York Harbor, five days before Britain's giant Queen Mary (see p. 17). From Poland's struggling new port of Gdynia on the Baltic to New York, the crack 16,000-ton Batory had made a record run of seven days, 17 hours running time, was met by a prepared demonstration of proud Polish nationalism...
...Four hundred workmen, their tool bags slung over their shoulders, tramped behind the pipers and gaily sang "The Cunarder's restarting!" to the tune of "The Campbells are Coming." Through the gates of the John Brown Shipyard they went, and other workmen, busy on the 8,000-ton motorship for the New Zealand trade and several other ships, cheered them as they passed to a great hull which for two years has been all there was to show of the world's largest liner, No. 534, the 73,000-ton monster of the Cunard Line (TIME...
...volcanic island has risen in the Pacific, reported Captain L. G. Richardson of the British motorship Silverbeech last week. It lies southeast of the main groups of Japanese Islands, is half a mile long, 15 ft. high. Japanese fishermen have already taken possession...
...solemn blessings of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London bestowed upon it, and a happy crowd to cheer its going, a trim white ship sped down the Thames and out to sea last July. It was the Southern Cross , VI, a 220-ton, 150-ft. motorship. latest and prettiest of a succession of Church of England vessels carrying the gospel to faraway isles...