Word: stackers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that chalk down. The Iroquois was indeed a double-stacker, but one stack was sacked when it became the Solace, because the Navy liked it that...
...could mean only that a carrier was in the vicinity. But carrier escort, too, was unusual for an ordinary convoy. Hours later the crew spotted the answer: up over the horizon came a "baby flattop," a carrier converted from a merchantman, escorted by several old four-stacker destroyers. By blinker light the little carrier reported...
Stand By tells the adventures of a patched-up 26-year-old four-stacker in the Pacific. The story is given a piquant twist by the fact that the destroyer goes into its big battle with a maternity ward below decks-survivors of a torpedoed ship. While infants wail and the ship's carpenter does his best to midwife a new baby, the destroyer drives in on a Jap battleship and, with a display of fireworks which alone is worth the price of admission, sinks...
Daniel Armstrong grew up around the Hampton campus, graduated from Annapolis, spent most of World War I on a destroyer, was acting commander of a pitching four-stacker when he left the Navy in 1919 to enter business. He was a petroleum company executive when the Navy recalled him two years ago as an administrator and idea man. He originated the Navy E (for excellence) program for industry, then moved on to Great Lakes...
...single-stacker Rio Tercero had been churning homeward 120 miles off New York. She was torpedoed without warning, her name, home port and Argentina's colors plainly visible in the early-morning light. Four sailors were killed; another drowned later. The Rio Tercero's captain said the submarine had had the name Innsbruck and a porcupine painted on its conning tower...