Word: trawler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elugelab, and digging a crater a mile long and 175 ft. deep in the ocean's floor, near Eniwetok. During Castle, near Bikini in the spring of 1954, miscalculations on power and meteorology caused radioactive ash to fall and injure 23 Japanese tuna fishermen-one fatally-on their trawler, Lucky Dragon, which was 14 miles outside the restricted zone. Ogle was a top technical official at Ivy and Castle, ironically considers Castle the test "which gave us more of practical value than any other." The U.S. H-bomb success came a mere nine months before the Russians fired their...
...radioactive shower that fell on Rongelap, 100 miles east of Eniwetok, after a meteorological miscalculation in a 1954 U.S. test. The island's 82 inhabitants had to be quarantined on another island for 3½ years before their home was considered safe. Twenty-three Japanese fishermen in the trawler Lucky Dragon suffered radioactive burns. Since the Marshalls are held in a U.S.-administered trust by the United Nations, any nuclear accident there can be politically as well as atomically explosive...
...navy, in a brilliant recruiting operation, found them. By dawn of May 30, the first wave of an astounding cockleshell armada was heading across the Channel. There was never a navy like it; the beachboat Dumpling had been built in Napoleon's day; the Fleetwood fishing trawler Jacinta, to the horror of the troops that sailed home in her hold, stank to the skies of cod; the destroyer Harvester, built on contract for Brazil, had all its gunnery instructions in Portuguese; a Dominican friar skippered the armed yacht Gulzar...
...Lord Stanley of Alderley, 6th Baron Sheffield of Roscommon, Baron Eddisbury of Winnington and a Baronet, served in a trawler, an ex-U.S. destroyer, a gunboat, during World War II, never in a corvette. For a comparison of corvettes, see cuts...
Then Iceland announced that it would enforce a new fisheries limit: twelve miles. British trawler captains who disregarded the Icelandic ultimatum and penetrated within the twelve-mile limit found themselves accosted by the belligerent Icelandic coast guard. The British navy steamed to the rescue, provided frigate escorts for the invading fishermen. Tempers flared, the NATO alliance (to which both belong) was endangered and shots were fired-although mostly blanks...