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Folks down here don't consider her-the biggest vessel on the river and bigger than many ocean-going cargo steamers-a "tugboat." She is a "towboat." An old lady of such poise, size and age should not be tagged with "tugboat...
Last week another Italian vessel came to grief on the Goodwins: the 2,327-ton freighter Silvia Onorato, carrying 2,933 tons of plumbago (graphite). When a lifeboat came through mountainous seas to take off the crew, bushy-browed Captain Francesco Ruocco cried: "Ship go, me go. . . . This ship she mean everything to me and to my bella...
...wheat saved in University dining halls today in the AVC sponsored plan will be shipped to Scotland aboard a Christmas relief vessel. Financial contributions to the shipment may be addressed to the S. S. Yankee Friendship, Boston Chamber of Commerce...
...good ship Atlantis, an oceanographic research vessel, was back in Woods Hole, Mass, last week, after two months of seagoing mountaineering. Purpose of the voyage: to study the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the submerged mountain range that divides the Atlantic Ocean-from Iceland almost to Antarctica. The range breaks the surface at only a few points (the Azores, Ascension Island, Tristan da Cunha). But if the Atlantic were drained dry, it would be one of the world's most spectacular ranges, with several peaks 20,000 feet above the ocean floor...
Hopeful Future. "The heart of the fast reactor," the report explains, "is a small vessel"; but apparently the vessel must be surrounded by a good deal of auxiliary apparatus. "Since the heat is generated in a relatively small region, special cooling provisions are required to prevent overheating of the center of the reactor...