Word: vessel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand miles away, in Bombay harbor, the 400-ton coastal vessel Ramdas, its decks crowded with more than 700 people, headed out for the one-hour run to Rewaz. A wall of water swept in from the open sea, struck the Ramdas a reeling blow. A second huge wave crashed down on the decks, sweeping the screaming passengers into the sea. No lifeboats were launched, no radio messages sent. Clinging to the floating wreckage were 179 survivors. In exactly two minutes, 563 people were lost...
...Jews was in effect yesterday, as a mine blast in Halfa that killed one and wounded seven persons touched off a third consecutive night of violence in the Holy Land. The explosion occurred shortly after it was announced that 4,500 illegal Jowish immigrants, intercepted on the vessel President Warfield, were being returned to France. French sources had not decided last night whether to let the unwilling immigrants land, and were negotiating with the British...
Britons talked sadly about the inglorious end of a once proud vessel, the 34-year-old battleship Warspite. The old lady had come to be a sort of symbol of British fortitude through two wars. In 1916's Battle of Jutland, her steering gear jammed, the Warspite had run around in circles, taking terrible punishment from German shells. But she had come back. In World War II she had been seriously damaged in action off Salerno, but had come back to fight again on D-day off Normandy. Last week the "miracle ship," stripped of her fighting gear...
Last week, Helgoland's tunnels were packed with 6,400 tons of explosive. Birds were warned off with charges of TNT. Then a British naval vessel touched off the biggest bang since Bikini. A sixth of Helgoland slid into the sea. The dagger pointed at Britain was once again dulled-this time, the British hoped, for keeps...
...treatment's co-discoverer, Dr. Rudolph Widmann. The detail that had roused the medical profession was that the treatment seemed to be something more than a possible cure for gangrene. It also opened the door to a brand-new attack on the whole range of such blood-vessel disorders as coronary thrombosis, angina pectoris, Buerger's disease, high blood pressure...