Word: nautiluses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This peculiar conduct of the Graf was by way of preparation for her projected Arctic flight. It satisfied the officers that, in good weather, the ship can put off and take aboard personnel for hunting or exploration. But the proposed rendezvous with Sir Hubert Wilkins' submarine Nautilus was abandoned because of the diver's misfortunes in crossing the Atlantic (TiME, June...
...this doleful news reached the old Nautilus toddling over the Atlantic toward England. What if, in the Arctic, an iceberg clapped against them...
Cruising had been smooth and uneventful. Then unexpectedly the batteries began to fail. Next the starboard engine failed completely. On one engine, the Nautilus grunted through quiet seas at 8 knots. A gale came up. All night the crippled submarine fought the waves. By morning Sir Hubert decided he had better wireless for help. The U. S. S. Wyoming and Arkansas turned to rescue. The Shipping Board tanker Independence Hall was close to the Nautilus. The liner President Roosevelt headed for the trouble. In the rocky sea it took all day long to throw a line between the Nautilus...
...shop, Outfitter Fiala clapped on his hat and started on a minor expedition of his own. He lives in the far reaches of Brooklyn. Wending his way afoot to that remote region, he habitually guides himself by the stars. Arctica, Sir George Hubert Wilkins expects to take his submarine Nautilus to the North Pole this summer. Dr. Hugo Eckener may meet him there with the dirigible Graf Zeppelin. If those tours de force come to pass, the world may acquire important stores of meteorological data. Both men want to add to man's knowledge of weather. The Maligin tour...
Herein are humorously narrated the trials and tribulations of a mixed party journeying to the North Pole in a submarine. Many mechanical devices, such as have been perfected expressly for the Nautilus were theoretically incorporated in Stockton's Dipsey...