Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rebel destroyer Jupiter nosed in between the Jose Luis Diez and the Gibraltar shore. Convinced now that the blockade could not be run. Commander Juan Castro changed his course, ordered the ship back to British waters...
...since 1916 has Jane's been edited by a Jane. Founded 41 years ago by Fred T. Jane, a Devonshire parson's sea-smitten son who had run away to London in his youth to write about ships, Jane's handbook was turned over to Dr. Oscar Parkes on the death of Founder Jane. Dr. Parkes, who combined his practice as a London neurologist with an interest in the world's fighting ships, served during the latter part of the World War in Britain's crack Naval Intelligence Division...
...time L'lle Bourbon reached the Suez Canal, the women's arguments were as unbearably hot as the weather. Their bickering drove the senior radio operator and ship's doctor ashore at Djibouti. De Boers took aboard a doctor whom he found in French Somaliland. At Madagascar most of the white crew mutinied, and blacks were signed on in their places. Then the fractious expedition set off for frigid St. Paul...
Last week an amateur radio operator in Bremerton, Wash., (about 11,000 miles from St. Paul), picked up a garbled message from L'lle Bourbon: "Ran Short Of Coal Due Bad Weather . . . Hope Madagascar Will Send Rescue. . . ." Expecting the worst, the French Government ordered a rescue ship to sail at once from Madagascar...
...Fieldwood, bound from Hawkesbury, N. S. for Barbados. Two days out the pumps broke down. Water poured in through the racked hull to disable auxiliary engine and radio. Soon the captain, his crew of six and their mascot bulldog, Yummie, were marooned on the deck of the water-logged ship...