Word: schoolship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cadets who entered in his class on the Schoolship Niobe, 15 survive and four are the retired Admirals Diek, Bachmann, Kresigk, Gerdes. All accompanied Prince Henry at Kiel last week and the Admirals motored out next day to be his house guests at Hem-melmark. There, on his retired estate, Prince Henry, still with chubby pink chops and twinkling, kindly eyes, drank a sailor's toast to "The Navy" with his Admirals in mellow Steinberger*, precious as fluid gold...
...Author. Born in Milwaukee 47 years ago, Felix Riesenberg was educated in the N. Y. Nautical Schoolship St. Mary's, the U. S. S. Chase, and, after eight years at sea, in the engineering school at Columbia. He tried for the North Pole with Explorer Wellman in the balloon, America. He helped build the Catskill Aqueduct and was municipal engineer of the Borough of Queens. Then he superintended the New York State Nautical School and commanded the U. S. S. Newport during the War. In 1924, he turned altogether to writing, having already published two sea stories and a textbook...
Aboard the schoolship Patrie, boys were being taught to load a 16-centimetre gun. An explosion occurred, 13 were injured, four seriously. What was said to be the lost message from the crew of the ill-fated Dixmude (TIME, Jan. 7, AERONAUTICS), was found in a bottle on the Corsican coast: "Gasoline given out. Adieu and Vive la France...
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