Word: sultans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Commodore's pennant fluttering from her yardarm, her khaki sides glistening with new paint, the Yawuz Sultan Selim, flagship and only battle cruiser of the Turkish Navy, steamed into the Golden Horn last week after a trial cruise and battle practice. Two hundred and fifty French engineers and dockyard foremen prepared to leave the comfortable homes they have occupied at Ismid on the Sea of Marmora and go home...
...years ago that most useful of naval registers, Jane's Fighting Ships, commented pithily on the Yawuz Sultan Selim: "Present condition is very bad, as all but two of her 24 boilers are out of action, and there are two unrepaired holes in hull below water line . . . has probably had more narrow escapes from destruction than any other dreadnought or battle cruiser in existence...
...Yawuz Sultan Selim slid down the ways of the Hamburg ship- builders Blohm & Voss (builders of the Europa) as the German battle cruiser Goeben. ?Speedy, heavily armored, with innumerable watertight compartments, she was as far ahead of her time as Germany's latest 1931 warship, the pocket battleship Deutschland. At the beginning of the War she slipped through the British and French Mediterranean squadrons to Constantinople, where she was nominally attached to the Turkish Navy as the Sultan Selim...
...this palace have slept Madame de Pompadour, the Emperor Franz Josef, Tsar Alexander I, Queen Victoria and the Sultan Abdul Aziz?though not all at the same time. Here Napoleon Bonaparte signed his second abdication as Emperor of the French. Here since 1873 have slept the twelve Presidents of the French Republic...
Lieut.-Colonel Daniel I. Sultan with a battalion of U. S. Army engineers was in charge of an expedition surveying the proposed route of the Nicaraguan Inter-Ocean Canal (see p. 18). Arriving in Managua, he took charge of the Marines' fire-fighting detachments. There was no water, no fire apparatus. Dynamite was his only weapon. Marine squads blew up a ring of houses round the blaze, fought the creeping flames with spadefuls of earth and adobe dust...