Word: trawlers
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...contained 17,000 ships, with Great Grimsby, the fishing port at the mouth of the Humber River, as their main base. Shallow-draft fishing boats, motor launches, even paddle steamers were pressed into service. In the first two months of that war, for every two mines swept up, one trawler was lost. By 1918, the rate was 80 mines swept per ship lost...
...dawn, still well within Earth's gravitational pull and far from Europe, his fuel line broke and he pancaked into the Atlantic about 175 miles southeast of Boston. A trawler fished him dripping from the sea, seconds after the monoplane sank. Oil-stained, tattered, handcuffed but merry as a tumbling bug, Cheston Lee Eshleman returned to Camden under police escort, was tossed into jail. He faced 1) a prison term for larceny, 2) a $4,000 fine for violating at least four Civil Aeronautics Authority rules. His sole profit: by-line story in Mr. Hearst's New York...
Train, bus, tug, trawler, clipper with bellied sail...
...days before Christmas a trawler, fishing in 40 fathoms of water off the South African coast, brought up in its net two tons of redfish, kobs and sharks. Among them was a five-foot, 127-lb. fish which had handsome steel-blue scales, dark blue eyes and fins that were trying to be legs. It lived for three hours on deck, taking a bite at the captain's hand. The captain was no scientist but he knew fish, and he had never seen anything like this...
Last year a Dutchman named John de Boers began making mistakes, biggest of which was to dream of a fortune he would scoop in three years from St. Paul's waters. He bought a Newfoundland trawler, L'lle Bourbon, spent a small fortune transforming it into a floating refrigerator. Then he assembled as ill-assorted a crew as ever walked up a gangplank: his expansive, motherly wife, who had once lived with natives in Madagascar; a blonde artist (niece of Paul Chabas, painter of September Morn); a Breton radio operator and his bitter-tongued fishwife; a Turkish engineer...