Word: otterness
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...looked wrong. In many respects she had proved unpractical. Now the odd-shaped Sea Otter rocked at her mooring in Charleston Harbor, gathering rust. Shipbuilders, sick of hearing about her. sighed: "That stinker." But during her short career she had plowed up a wake which still boiled last week. She had become an "affair...
Last summer, sold on the idea that the 250-ft., 2,240-ton "tin can" might be the answer to the submarine menace, impressed by the performance of an 80-ft. model, Franklin Roosevelt and Navy Secretary Knox decided to have a full-sized Otter built, try her out. Mr. Knox ordered his special assistant, Joseph W. Powell, former president of United Shipyards, to go to work...
Quickly built, the Otter had her first trials. "Very satisfactory," chuffed Secretary Knox. People began to believe that whole shoals of Sea Otters would shortly squirt out of U.S. shipyards, start bobbing across the Atlantic in schools. But nothing happened. Two months ago Mr. Knox finally admitted the idea was dead...
...rumpled man with cantilever mustach was giving the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Ships plenty to brood about. Greying William Starling Burgess, designer of America's Cup defenders (Enterprise, Rainbow and Ranger), whipper-upper of the automobile-engined Sea Otter (TIME, Sept. 29), had turned up with another ship innovation...
...Halifax, the Canadian naval patrol boat Otter, 2,000 tons, burned and sank with loss of 19 lives. Until last year, the Otter was Vincent Astor's famed Nourmahal, on which Seadog Astor often took Franklin Roosevelt fishing...