Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this point a suave voice from London intruded: "We are now taking you back to the Carleton Hotel, for dance music." What befuddled Commander Woodrooffe was trying to describe was the manner in which, at a single blink from the flagship Nelson, every ship in the review suddenly flashed out with myriad lines of lights which, at another signal, blacked out completely. A moment later at a third signal hundreds of searchlights swept the night firmament in amazing patterns...
...first time women were on the bridge of a ship of the royal navy at a formal review. Queen Elizabeth, wearing smoked glasses, stood with her elder daughter on the bridge of the Victoria & Albert, near but not beside King George who stood out alone, clearly visible to every ship in the line, saluting like an automaton for two full hours. Near Princess Elizabeth, doing his best to answer her questions, was King George's cousin and personal naval A.D.C., Commander Lord Louis Mountbatten. The Queen's dark glasses were unnecessary. It was not raining but visibility...
...Collicr's was out one week ahead of the Hin-daiburg's arrival with an article describing the speed & comfort of the ship...
...permit. Since opera needs a soprano, Authors Damrosch & Guiterman interpolated a new character, Mary Rutledge, as Nolan's sweetheart. When Philip is tried by a military tribunal, she nervously wrings her hands in the back of the courtroom. When he is exiled, she follows him to Gibraltar. Boarding ship, Mary begs Stephen Decatur, who has Philip in custody, to let him command a gun against attacking pirates. Decatur gives in, a Berber battle song rings out, Mary makes her escape. In the fierce encounter that follows, Nolan is wounded, dies hearing Mary's imagined lullaby...
...spread like wildfire, set amateur treasure-seekers (and still does) searching and digging. One reason: the "treasure" captured with Kidd was disappointingly small, indicated to optimists that more must be cached somewhere. Another: in a last attempt to buy his life, Kidd offered to guide a King's ship to hidden treasure worth ?100,000. In the 19th Century nine different companies were formed to look for this legendary hoard. Author Wilkins believes Kidd's treasure is really there-somewhere-thinks he knows at last where it may be found...