Word: pontooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Misses Granner and Renninger crouched below decks for six days, listening, dozing, stretching, thinking about the unclassifiable noises that came from the sacking of the nearby town of Taoyuan. Twice hooves and boots clattered over-head in numbers, for the army had commandeered the junk as part of a pontoon bridge across the Yuan. On the sixth day the Communist-bandits left and last week the two indomitable spinsters sailed on into Changteh, praising their secretive boatman...
...this time the George Washington's photographer had excitedly unlimbered his camera. He caught the foam-flecked wave that heaved up and tore off the right pontoon of the low swooping plane. As she floundered in a mountain of spray, Swedish Mechanic Henry ("Happy") Johnson was drowned, but within 50 minutes a smart boat crew had saved everyone else as both plane and camera sank. The can of film that had now cost an additional $70,000 was hauled back aboard the George Washington and Fox faced a possible lawsuit from the owners of the plane...
...knots, like terriers around a cow, closer and closer to the great ship in an effort to sweep the mud away with their wash. They made tremendous waves but the only result was to swing the Nelson still more firmly on the bank and completely wreck the pontoon bridge between Portsmouth and Gosport, three-quarters of a mile away...
...last flight." Seven or eight men & women passengers (no one was positive of the exact number afterward) piled into the Sikorsky amphibian and off they went. Twenty minutes later the ship glided to a landing. Crack! A slapping wave broke the starboard pontoon. Rather than taxi through the swells with his right wingtip boring the water, Pilot Vickery gunned his engines, took off for the landing field near Glenview north of the city. A mile short of that goal the weakened right wing crumpled. The plane crashed in a plowed field. Pilots, passengers, all were cremated...
Since the S-51, the pontoon design was radically changed and the pontoons used on the 54, in no sense similar to the originals on the F4, proved easy to handle and are now the Navy standard...