Word: torpedoed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pounding, drove the shattered remnants of the fleet back to Port Arthur, where he potted them at long distance one by one, "like beasts in a pit." Meanwhile the Russian Baltic Fleet was under way, coming all the long way round the Cape of Good Hope. Nervous about Japanese torpedo-boats before they passed
...Douglas and its subsidiary, Northrop Co., had $4,500,000 in orders. Today they have $15,000,000. About $8,000,000 of this came in Army contracts awarded month ago. Some $3,000,000 more came last week from the Navy in a contract for 114 torpedo bomber planes. The remnant is made up of orders for the DC2 and the new DC-3, better known as the DST (Douglas Sleeper Transport...
When War broke, he asked for and got an appointment as consultant at a shipyard in Camden, N. J. For months he was given nothing to do. The other engineers were trying vainly to balance the turbine rotors for torpedo boat destroyers. Called in as a last resort. Teetor drew on his supersensitive ''feel" for vibration, found a way to balance the rotors in three hours each...
...Wilhelm Goring divulged the secret that Great Britain, in assenting to German violation of naval clauses of the Treaty of Versailles (TIME. June 24), assented also to violation of its air clauses. Germany is to lay down in 1936 aircraft carriers totalling 47,000 tons and construct squadrons of torpedo seaplanes as large as Pan-American Transpacific Clippers...
...Navy, Dr. Parkes finally explained, is composed of "gentlemen's ships" with every comfort and convenience, whereas the Italians have "ruthlessly curtailed" space and weight until no gentleman would care to fight in them. Oddly enough Dr. Parkes seemed more alarmed by the Fascist "suicide boats" (super-speedboats carrying torpedoes) than by any of Italy's other weapons. "Should the Mediterranean become a scene of naval operations." wrote anxious Oscar Parkes, "I should hazard the guess that these boats and torpedo planes will play a more vital part than the big ships...