Word: vaisseau
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Last week Air France and the French Line joined in creating a new concern called Companie Air France-Transatlantique. It announced that the lumbering old flying boat Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, which capsized in Pensacola Bay 18 months ago after flying up from South America, had been rebuilt, would soon start test flights across the North Atlantic. Lufthansa last week announced that it would start test flights to the U. S. in the first week of July with "the two biggest two-float hydroplanes ever constructed." These trim monoplanes, called Nordmeer and Nordwind, are powered by four Diesel engines apiece...
...eastward crossing. As Normandie neared Havre every house seemed to be flying a bit of the Atlantic's speed blue ribbon which the world's largest ship had won for France. Amid tears, cheers and sirens, the world's fourth largest seaplane, also French, Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, thundered out from Havre to circle over Normandie, its passengers peering down from twelve cabins, each with private bath, then strolling in for cocktails at the flying French monster...
Translating vaisseau from the French, a student wrote 'on his scratch pad: "vessle, vessil, vassel." Then, apparently giving it up, he thought of a synonym, wrote "bote...