Word: porting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever the raider, the incident raised one challenging question. Where was she based? The attack occurred at least 6,000 miles from German waters, and even the Admiral Scheer could cruise only 10,000. Fuel and supplies must have come from either a South American or West Indian port...
When the last Armistice was flashed, a minesweeping force sped into the Dardanelles and in 24 hours removed 600 British and enemy mines, to let the fleet move in to Istanbul. At home, Britain's mine-sweeping fleet contained 17,000 ships, with Great Grimsby, the fishing port at the mouth of the Humber River, as their main base. Shallow-draft fishing boats, motor launches, even paddle steamers were pressed into service. In the first two months of that war, for every two mines swept up, one trawler was lost. By 1918, the rate was 80 mines swept...
...cranny for possible time-bombs, not to worry the passengers by telling them, and finally, since crazy though it was, the warning was too serious to dismiss altogether, he was to expect "a Coast Guard vessel and several Navy ships" which would accompany the Iroquois to an unspecified American port...
...selling on a 24-hour basis, with no prices guaranteed for longer, is sick old King Coal. Exports (mostly to neutrals' deprived of coal supplies from belligerents) are competing with forward buying by worried U. S. fuel users. Hampton Roads (Va.), which has not been a big coal port for years, took foal from Pocahontas mines at the rate of 433,066 tons a week (current Pocahontas weekly production: 6-to-700,000 tons a week). Hampton Roadsters worked days, nights and Sundays loading ship holds and bunkers. Pennsylvania Railroad's Norfolk & Western Railway has been setting...
...British ships had been molested during the last week. This statement is true, if Mr. Churchill does not regard the sinking of a ship as molestation." *A large proportion of Sweden's normal annual 8,000,000 tons of iron ore for Germany comes from the ice-free port of Narvik on the Arctic Ocean and around down the Norway coast. This will be cut off by the British blockade...