Word: vessels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next morning, after a dawn serenade, the visiting couple attended church, then boarded the liner Gothic. As Queen Salote and her family circled the huge vessel in a government launch, the Gothic steamed off toward New Zealand. When the big white ship was hull down on the horizon, a radio message winged its way back: "We take away happiest memories of Tonga and the great and friendly welcome given us by your people. May Almighty God watch over them...
Despite this general rule, Athanassios, an engineer aboard a tiny cargo vessel called the Dynamo, did trust his young brother Christakis well enough to get them both free. One night last week, as the Dynamo's captain, Vassilis Kotzis, and two Communist soldiers assigned to guard his cargo of flour and tires were waiting to set sail in the harbor at Valona Athanassios turned up on board with a surprise-some rare white bread, cheese and good red wine. "From a cousin's wedding," he explained as he disappeared into the galley to prepare the feast...
...Seawolf, which will take ten months to finish, will be powered by an improved atomic reactor of higher speed than that used on the Nautilus. Both boats, Secretary Anderson explained, will be faster and more powerful than any undersea vessels ever built. Said Anderson: "For the first time in history, the Navy will have the ideal vessel to send under the sea to combat enemy submarines lurking in the depths...
Admiral at Work. Burger simply seized the ships, then let them continue operating under the same officers. But he first had both captain and first mate sworn in as deputy U.S. marshals, with the duty of impounding all profits made by the vessel. To accomplish this, Burger had to get the owners' agreement to the arrangement. They were willing because their only alternatives were to keep the seized ship at anchor (at a cost of $1,000 to $2,000 a day), or put up bond equal to its value. As a result, Burger is now running so many...
...India's Hooghly River one day last February sailed a weird vessel which made even the drowsiest citizens rub their eyes. It looked like a Viking galley, and standing in its prow were warriors dressed like Viking sea kings of old. At Calcutta's Out-ram Ghat pier, one stepped ashore and delivered a pole-sized replica of a new cigarette made by India's Imperial Tobacco Co. Its name: Sea King...