Word: ship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening at 7.15 o'clock candidates for the Harvard Flying Club will meet in Sever 6. The competition will last four weeks, and will include a course of ground school lectures. This feature gives new members a basis for further instruction in flying and for the operation of the ship. Another new rule of the competition is a short flight test for those candidates who still remain in it at the end. This will not be required of candidates already holding pilot's licenses...
...Oglala' laid 56,000 mines during the World War," said Captain D. C. Bingham U. S. N., when visited Friday aboard his ship at the Navy Yard, Charlestown. "But you'd never know...
...They've taken eight boilers out of her, and replaced them with two to do the same work. That shows you what steps have been made in engineering since she was built in 1907," he continued. "Right now we are cleaning the ship up, and preparing for visitors on Navy Day, which will be celebrated Monday, October...
Down in the hold of the ship he exhibited the narrow gauge tracks which run from bow to stern, on which mines are stored during war time, ready to be dropped from a door in the stern itself...
...When the mine is lowered a cable is fastened to it which runs above and below the mine itself. To explode the mine a ship does not have to strike the cylinder, it may touch any part of the cable, and an electrical contact will set off the dynamite. This device makes possible many explosions which would otherwise never occur, as a vessel rarely strikes the mine...