Word: transport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lieutenant Schmidt's cruiser was joined by nine other ships and an infantry regiment on shore, which attempted to seize the city of Sebastopol. Ships loyal to the Tsar opened fire on the rebel boats, sinking the Otchakov, the Dneiper and a transport. The remaining seven quickly surrendered, and, after several conflicts, the mutineers on shore gave themselves up. The casualties on both sides amounted to 5,000. Subsequently 39 sailors were tried, some acquitted, others sentenced to hard labor for life. Schmidt and three others were shot...
Following the successful attack of the Black fleet, Admiral Jones delivered a lecture in the ward room of the transport Henderson. His audience consisted of Secretary of the Navy Denby and the Congressional party which witnessed the maneuvers...
Following the review of the United States Fleet in the Pacific, off the Panama Canal, by Secretary Denby and his party aboard the transport Henderson, battle maneuvers began. The Secretary went aboard Admiral Hilary P. Jones' flagship, the Maryland...
France also leads in air transport. According to Stéphane Lausanne, of Le Matin, France now has eight active air lines, six radiating from Paris to London, Amsterdam, Bucharest, Warsaw, Geneva, Marseilles, one from Antibes to Ajaccio (Corsica), one across the Mediterranean from Toulouse to Casablanca in Morocco. England can boast of only three or four lines to the Continent...
Theoretically the best sailor of them all should be the head of the Navy Department. Secretary Denby proved himself at least as good as any. When the transport on which he was traveling to the fleet maneuvers met a heavy storm off Hatter as, the Secretary stuck to the bridge...