Word: shippings
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Nuclear submarines may prove to be faster than any surface ship. Reason: a ship that moves in the "interface" between water and air spends much of its power creating waves in the water, and this resistance increases steeply with increasing speed. A submerged submarine makes no waves. If it is properly designed to minimize skin friction and turbulence in the wake, it can move faster than a wavemaking surface ship of the same power. Conventional non-nuclear submarines are slow underwater because their electric engines must use with utmost economy the power stored in their batteries, but one non-nuclear...
...Aboard the S.S. Caliban, bound out of Liverpool for Rangoon, things get worse. The lascar stewards curse foully-yet only Pinfold seems to hear. Something, he thinks, is wrong with the ship's ventilating gear; by some acoustic or electrical freak, he hears conversations, snatches of music, and a dog snuffling in the night. Then he somehow listens to an obscene lecture on sex by some evangelical clergyman (though none appears on the passenger list). New voices make themselves heard. They become menacing and are well-informed on Pinfold's private affairs...
...Future. By Nasser's standards, this too was a restrained speech. He made no demands that the U.N. Emergency Force withdraw from Egypt's borders. He made no mention of Israel's ships passing into the Gulf of Aqaba. And in a week of nationalist celebrations, Egypt permitted the Danish freighter Birgitte Toft, under charter to Israel, to pass through the canal with a cargo of rice for Haifa-the first such ship on Israeli charter to go through Suez since last year's Sinai war. (An Israeli sailor, however, was taken off the ship...
...evening the ship's band, as usual, played "Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!" First-class passengers invented a cocktail: "Reina on the Rocks." Some of them began going ashore to sightsee, while others began flying to Britain at the expense of the Pacific Steam Navigation Co. When third-class passengers also asked for air passage, they were told to go ahead-at their own expense...
...fourth evening, as a full moon peeped over a calm sea, two tugs put towlines over the ship's sides, rocking her gently as her own windlasses tightened up on cables to outlying anchors. The Reina slid off the rocks as easily as she had slid on 84 hours before. Said the laconic voice over the loudspeaker: "Passengers are advised the vessel is now free." Said shattered Captain Hicks: "They're greasing a noose for me on the other side. This is my first and last passenger-ship command, I can assure...