Word: mudbanks
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...council adjourned, to meet again at Lake Success this week. Some of its members boarded the Queen Mary at Cherbourg and promptly got stuck for twelve hours in a mudbank. That was a simile come to life-and a lot more accurate than the ones the diplomats thought...
...tides was coming along, it had been decided to move her "to another port." With no fuss, with only a few score people lining the same Clyde River banks where 1,000,000 had cheered Queen Mary in 1936, Q. E. eased downstream. For an hour she kissed a mudbank at Rashielee Light, where the Mary, too, had grounded. Finally she anchored outside, at Greenock...
...inglorious scuttling with the work of two Australian marine engineers who arrived in Manhattan with accounts of how they and a crew of twelve scuttled an obsolete 10,000-tonner (one of six) in a channel of Scapa Flow After plugging the nose of the vessel into a mudbank, they left her with engines racing forward, slid overside on ropes in time to escape blasts set off in her hold by electric impulse from shore. Workmen had replaced steel plates with wooden planking in sections of the ship's bottom. The hull settled into place to help block...
...stood off Ambrose Light for two days while her impatient passengers bet on the length of the delay. The Empress of Britain reported more business at the bars during one day's delay than during a whole ten-day cruise. The French liner Champlain stuck briefly in a mudbank. Near the Statue of Liberty a ferry sank a coal-barge. The Hamburg-American liner Resolute sideswiped a freighter, erasing the last six letters of her own name from the bow. Ellis Island's Immigration Station reported it was short of food...
...Spanish Fork, Utah, a car in which Robert Olsen Jr., 2, was riding overturned, threw him 20 ft. Robert Olsen landed in a mudbank, was unhurt...