Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Stevens began the third week of rowing yesterday with another change in the seating order of his first boat. C. F. Darlington '26, who has been rowing at number six in crew Y, has replaced J. W. Gates '27 at seat six in the first shell. Darlington rowed on his Freshman eight two years ago, and last year pulled an oar in the second University crew. He is the tallest man on the squad, measuring six feet four inches, and is one of the most finished oarsmen in Coach Stevens' group...
...after a more permanent realignment of the candidates in the present first squad. Last year three oarsmen earned their letters by rowing in the first boat against Yale. They were taken up to the first squad by Coach Stevens following the class crew season, in which a victorious Crimson shell opened up five lengths of water in the race with the representative Eli class eight...
...Adie '26 will be definitely lost to the crew this year because of scholastic difficulties, according to an announcement made yesterday. Adie rowed in the Crimson shell against Yale last year and stroked the 1926 boat at New London the previous year. His loss leaves Coach Stevens with a nucleus of but three letter men for this year's crew, namely, Captain Kelley, Johnson, and Winthrop...
...towed to port. Two airplanes tried to drop armor-piercing projectiles upon her from 4,000 feet. One plane, after eight trial flights, dropped its bomb in the water. The other plane, on its fourth flight, scored a hit. The bomb was a 1,440-pound armor-piercing shell, but without explosive. It did not pierce the deck armor, although it might have done so from a greater height (indicating that her deck armor should be heavier...
...suffering the explosion of three underwater bombs of the largest size and two torpedo explosions, also of the largest size, directly against the hull, with no repair of leaks and no pumps going, the Washington remained afloat four days and was finally sunk by 14 hits of 14-inch shell fired at very oblique impacts to obtain data with respect to penetration of armor. The ship sank two and three-quarters hours from the time the guns opened fire...