Word: vessels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taking control in China, the British frigate H.M.S. Amethyst steamed up the Yangtze, bound for Nanking, to bring supplies to Britain's embassy. The Chinese Communist army, deployed on the Yangtze's north bank and preparing to make many crossings, opened up on the Amethyst, clobbered the vessel without provocation, nearly sank her before she ran aground. This all happened before Korea, but what followed was a good clue to the Chinese Communists' knack for flitting without pause from atrocious war fare to attritious negotiation - a harbinger of Panmunjom and the 24-month palavering that, even...
...sperm whales, try to listen to them, will you?" These were about the last words heard by the crew of the research vessel Atlantis before casting off last spring from the Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institution on a voyage to trace currents in the Atlantic. They were shouted at dockside by tall (6 ft. 1 in.), intense Harvard Zoologist William Edward Schevill...
...towlines over the ship's sides, rocking her gently as her own windlasses tightened up on cables to outlying anchors. The Reina slid off the rocks as easily as she had slid on 84 hours before. Said the laconic voice over the loudspeaker: "Passengers are advised the vessel is now free." Said shattered Captain Hicks: "They're greasing a noose for me on the other side. This is my first and last passenger-ship command, I can assure...
...turnout was below expectations, and Captain Alan Villiers was kept busy soothing his crewmen. There were complaints that some of them had not been paid. In London, Lloyds Underwriter Felix Fenston, who had ballasted the project with $98,000, jumped ship because the Mayflower promoters had not turned the vessel over to a charitable foundation, as planned. There was hope of fresh cash from rubbernecking admissions during a proposed stay in New York Harbor, but even here the long arm of Old World oppression threatened the hardy ship: back in England, Tugboat Owner Ernest Lister instructed his solicitor to have...
...inviting offers-among them the $75,000-a-year presidency of the American Petroleum Institute- he stuck with the estate, expanding it steadily. In late 1952, on the advice of Texas' then-Governor Allan Shivers, Dwight Eisenhower nominated Anderson as Navy Secretary. Never before aboard an ocean-going vessel, Anderson navigated the Navy expertly from his swivel chair. Item: with rare courage he reversed the decision of senior Navy brass, recommended the promotion of passed-over Captain Hyman G. Rickover, able "father" of the atomic submarine, to rear admiral. He succeeded Roger M. Kyes as Deputy Defense Secretary...