Word: pontooned
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Still the waves piled over one another ribaldly, broke, boiled away. Then a loud report fetched all eyes aft. They saw a pontoon shoot clear of the combers and settle back into the ocean in a smother of foam. Quickly then another catapulted through the waves, floated off casually. Far below the surface a chain with links two and a half inches thick and tested to a strain of 110 tons had parted. The work of months at the risk of many lives, all realized, had been swept away in a single moment. The wind blew fresher, the seas rolled...
Lean and nervous Captain King in a dirty blue uniform leaned over the rail, his bloodshot eyes staring into the water. Dejectedly he said, "We've done everything we can. Two months of it and we're tired!" He gave orders to capture the two capricious, runaway pontoons, to flood the ones floating,-it was an impossibility to tow the submarine to port with her stern resting on the bottom. Smashing seas imperiled the small boats and crashed together the four pontoons, rendering the re-submergence extremely hazardous. The first man to volunteer for the job of opening...
Owing to the overcrowding of a pontoon, 84 Reichswehr soldiers lost their lives in the swift River Weser during Army maneuvers. The Reichstag held a "mourning session," flags were at half mast all over Germany...
...successful, the cruiser, when floated, will be relieved of its heavy upper parts and used as a pontoon for raising other ships...
...raise the destroyers, which is the easier task, Cox & Danks bought a floating submarine dry-dock which formerly belonged to the Germans. This was remodeled to act as a double pontoon. By passing cables under the hull of a destroyer and attaching hooks, it was hoped that the destroyer could be lifted in two days. The first attempt was a failure. The cables snapped after the destroyer had been lifted seven feet; the lifting-gear was badly 'damaged...