Word: quarterdeckers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish Basque harbor of Bilbao, H. M. S. Hood, most potent warboat in the world, plowed ponderously through mountainous waves with Vice Admiral Geoffrey Blake on its quarterdeck. Between the Hood and the harbor was the ancient Spanish battleship España, flagship of the Rightist fleet, and a half-dozen battered codfish trawlers armed with machine guns. Less than 100-mi. away a half-dozen British freighters were in the harbor of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, loaded with food for beleaguered Leftist Bilbao, but by orders from London the Hood, with all the awesomeness of its 15-inch guns...
...during a White air raid on Valencia that a Red anti-aircraft shell landed squarely on the quarterdeck of the British battleship Royal Oak, injuring four officers and a seaman. Not wishing to stir up pro-Valencian British Laborites, the British Admiralty made light of the whole affair. Declared an Admiralty official: "We might reproach the Loyalists for the awkward aiming of an anti-aircraft shell, but there is no question of malice. It was more or less...
...friend Captain Kiddle of the dreadnought Revenge, which was anchored with the rest of the British Grand Fleet in Scapa Flow. Mrs. Clegg thought it would be a nice change for her husband, packed him off to Scotland. An hour after Captain Kiddle welcomed his guest on his quarterdeck, the Grand Fleet steamed out on emergency orders and the Battle of Jutland, greatest modern naval engagement...
...only trouble was that H. R. H. must salute the quarterdeck of the Wishart on stepping aboard, could, by British Admiralty tradition, do so only with his hat on. Frantically someone produced a white linen one which the Prince brushed impatiently aside. Coaxed Mrs. Simpson: "Davie, dear! Please wear...
...article entitled ''Vacation's End," TIME, July 10, did not mention through what means the President reached the quarterdeck of the U. S. S. Indianapolis, sometimes extremely difficult when in a seaway...