Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Korean PT boats rigged fenders-rubber tubes and rope mats to cushion impact-and began backing toward Pueblo's bow that Bucher realized what was happening; in the bow of the PT boat stood an armed boarding party. "These guys are serious," the skipper radioed his home port, U.S. Navy headquarters in Yokosuka, Japan. "They mean business...
...Pueblo radioed Yokosuka that the North Koreans were aboard. Twenty-five minutes later, she reported that she had been "requested" to steam into Wonsan, a deep-draft port used by many Soviet submariners in preference to Vladivostok, where the continental shelf forces them to cruise uncomfortably close to the surface. At 2:32 p.m., barely 2½ hours after the first Communist PT boat hove into view, came Pueblo's last message. Engines were "all stop," Bucher reported; he was "going...
...event, Gidrolog was not the only party curious about the whereabouts of the U.S. armada. The day after Enterprise headed toward Wonsan, North Korean MIGS flew more than 40 sorties around the port, and U.S. listening posts intercepted a steady stream of chatter from Pyongyang to the pilots: "Where is the Enterprise? What is the position of Enterprise?" Either the leviathan was making North Korea nervous, or Pyongyang, in the wake of its success at swiping Pueblo, was thinking of bigger things...
...U.S.S. Chesapeake, searched her for deserters and shanghaied four seamen. An even more dramatic depredation occurred in 1804, four months after Barbary pirates captured the grounded U.S. frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli harbor and clapped her crewmen into prison. Lieut. Stephen ("Our country, right or wrong") Decatur sailed into the port aboard a vessel disguised as a blockade-runner from Malta, boarded Philadelphia and, with a crew of 84, routed the 200 Tripolitan crewmen who had been put aboard. Decatur set Philadelphia ablaze, and just as his aptly named Intrepid darted out of the harbor, the captured ship exploded...
...fighter-bombers and 200 tanks for Egypt, 40 planes and 100 tanks for Syria and 20 planes for Iraq. In addition, the Russians have given Egypt, Syria and Algeria some 40 Komar patrol boats, which carry the Styx missile of the type that sank the Israeli destroyer Elath off Port Said last October. The Soviets have doubled the number of military advisers in Egypt to at least 2,000 and have sent large training missions to Algeria, Iraq, Syria and Yemen...