Word: vessel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Force ended abruptly last week, with the airmen slow-rolling overhead in triumphant victory. Less than a week after the centerplates had been dropped into the keel of the 65,000-ton supercarrier United States, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson issued a curt order "discontinuing construction of the vessel . . . at the least possible cost to the Government."" The decision meant only one thing: from now on the Air Force will take care of long-range strategic bombing; the Navy will be. held to the job of keeping the overseas supply lines open, and launching amphibious landings on foreign shores...
...They would define such an armed attack as an assault in the North Atlantic area on any territory, island possession, aircraft or vessel of any of the signers of the treaty. It would also include any attack on occupation forces in Europe...
...number drowned in the Kiangya sinking was about 2,750. Last month another (unidentified) Chinese vessel, evacuating troops from Manchuria, went down with 6,000 aboard. Among the greatest maritime disasters hitherto recorded: the Titanic (1912), which went down with 1,517; the Lusitania (1915) with 1,198; the General Slocum (1904) with...
Young Edbury Hatch had just picked the wrong trade. When he was a boy in Newcastle, Me., the town had supported ten busy shipyards and every new vessel needed a carved figurehead. But by 1870, when William Southworth discharged Hatch, business was starting to fall...
Once Upon a Time. Most Shannon stories have at least two versions. One that makes the best telling opens on a stormy night in 1826 when a sailing vessel struck a reef and sank off Sydney harbor. On board were some English racing mares bound for Australia, and at least one managed to swim ashore. Her pedigree papers went down with the ship. So the name...