Word: ship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with the Department of Education, has just completed its first piece of work of national importance. This work is intimately connected with the country's war preparation program, for it presents clearly and concisely the nature of the training that is needed today in order to engage in the ship-building industry...
When war was declared we had in our ports some of the finest of the German liners. The Vaterland, the largest ship in the world, the Kronprinzessin Cecllie, the Amerika, and several other "floating palaces," as well as a great number of freighters were just waiting for the United States to make use of them. Unfortunately, in spite of every precaution, the Germans were able to wreck the engines of these steamers. The Kaiser believed that none of these boats would all under the Stars and Stripes for many a year. He had not reckoned on our engineers...
Nothing quite like the Halifax disaster has ever occurred. Plenty of munition depots and munition ships as large as the Mont Blanc have doubtless been blown up in this war, and scores of costly collisions between vessels have occurred. But never has an explosion on board ship had the disastrous effect of this one. It is supposed that the Mont Blanc carried a huge amount of the new explosive, trinitrotuluol, T.N.T., a glistening pale-yellow powder, as potent as nitroglycerine, though safer to handle. Moreover, the situation of the ship in the half-mile-wide Narrows, between two rising shores...
...Pennell has been permitted by Premier Lloyd George to make drawing of various factories and ship yards which are engaged din war work in England. These sketches have already been published in the form of lithographs. Later Mr. Pennell was invited by the French Government to do the same in France, but though he went twice to that country, he failed to get important results there...
Leaving about the first of July, the ship will cruise from the Maine coast to the West Indies. A large part of the time will be spent on the open seas. The vessel will return after about two months. The captain and engineer will be on board to assist the crew composed of Yale men in the management of the yacht...