Word: rockets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy's rocket-belching LSMR, improvised in the middle of World War II, was an efficient, lethal little vessel. As a curtain raiser to amphibious landings, it could briefly match the firepower of a modern cruiser with its close-in salvos of rockets. The enemy on the beach quickly came to respect its sting, but the unhappy crewmen aboard just as quickly discovered that the LSMR was not designed as a pleasure craft. In the calmest seas, it shook like a dog emerging from a bath; in hurricane weather, it performed better, sloughing wildly over the long sea swells...
...Bobtailed Cruiser." At the commissioning in Bremerton Navy Yard, the Navy appropriately christened its prototype ship the U.S.S. Carronade, after a snub-nosed naval cannon developed in Scotland in 1779. The Carronade looks sawed in half-it has an awesome, cruiser-like bow with eight rocket launchers planted on a forward deck which slants downward to the steel-skinned superstructure, then ends abruptly. It looks, in the words of the Carronade's crewmen, like "a bobtailed cruiser...
...make life afloat more livable (and more attractive to recruits), the Navy spent $6,000,000, turned Raymond Loewy and his designers loose on the plans. The result is hardly the equivalent of first-class accommodations aboard the Queen Elizabeth, but it is a far cry from the older rocket ships...
Finally the trouble with both rockets was discovered: a small leak that did not develop until the rocket was in flight and vibrating...
...another tore itself free during a static test. At last, after years of trying, Viking7 triumphed, rising 137 miles and exceeding the altitude record (114 miles) of the much larger and more expensive German V2. In 1954, Viking-11 established a new record (158 miles) for a single-stage rocket...