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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...printed a letter from a midshipman signed "W. T. Door." You may be interested to know that this is a pseudonym, equivalent to the civilian's "John Doe." It is taken from the marking found frequently on ship's doors, meaning "watertight door...
Prankish sailors will not take in TIME twice. "Charley Noble" is ship slang for a galley funnel. "Joe Gish," at Annapolis as at Princeton and other universities throughout the land, is equivalent to the civilian "John Doe." And Reader Noble's U.S.S. Seattle can scarcely be rolling, for it has not been out of the Brooklyn navy yard for ten years...
When Joseph Patrick Kennedy finally settled on board the S. S. Manhattan last week to take his Irish temper to the Court of St. James, he had no fear of failing to get safely to his post. All the ship's seamen were members of the National Maritime Union, and presumably his sworn enemies, but their spokesman announced through his teeth: "Our members wall give Mr. Kennedy every courtesy no matter what they think of his attempts to wreck their union...
Oslofjord, Though Norway's merchant marine is fourth biggest on the seas, the navy that defends it has a total personnel of 1,200, includes but four battleships. Nevertheless, Norway announced last week that the new flagship of its merchant marine, the Oslofjord, is a peace ship and inconvertible to war purposes. Due in New York in June, the new Norwegian America liner was last week getting her finishing touches at Bremen, Germany. Launched to the strains of Ja Vi Elsker Dette Landet (Yes, We Love This Country), Norway's biggest ship is a 20,000-tonner...
With the aid of French money he rigged out the "Bonhomme Richard" and captured seventeen merchant ships about the British Isles. In a battle which established American naval tradition he lashed his ship to the British "Scrapis" and sank it. His own was so badly damaged that it sank two days later. Owing to the blockade, the first ship built in America for the continental navy did not get out of harbor until after the Revolution ended. Then Jones took the "America" to Europe, where he served in the Russian navy and died...