Word: vessels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, heeding the call of the westering sun and the social season at Nassau, Freddy and Claude boarded their 104-ton auxiliary schooner Kangaroo, in Tangier and set sail for the Bahamas. A strong southwest gale was rising as the vessel rounded Cape Cantin off the Moroccan coast. The wind, heavy laden with desert sand, seized the yacht, drove it inshore and dashed it on the reefs. A surging wave flung a steward overboard to his death. Another knocked Claude's French maid Cecile to the deck. McEvoy's crewmen picked her up and lashed...
...Dwight Eisenhower boarded the cruiser Des Moines at Naples, the Mediterranean was frothing into a bad storm. His green & gold SHAPE flag, flying over a naval vessel for the first time, was whipped to shreds by 60-mile winds. Ike himself skittered across rolling decks, disappeared into admiral's country and stayed there, confining himself to light reading and chats with his NATO commander for southern Europe, U.S. Admiral Robert B. ("Mick") Carney...
...After seizing command of their vessel, twelve members of the Polish navy reached this port and political sanctuary...
...guns blasting at enemy installations, the U.S. destroyer Ernest G. Small (2,400 tons) hit a mine. Holed below the waterline in a forward compartment, the Small made Kure, Japan, under her own power, but eight of her crew were dead, 18 injured. She was the eighth U.S. Navy vessel to strike a Communist mine. Mines, cheap to lay, hard to find and hazardous to hit, are the real peril of the Korean seas. Communists lay them at night from sampans, frigates, barges and junks. They even drift them downriver. The location and dispersion of mines on the east coast...
...British Admiralty last week explained how it had finally located the hulk of the submarine Affray, which sank last April with its crew of 75 men and officers (TIME, April 30). It had not been a diver who first spotted the missing vessel, but the sharp eye of an underwater television camera, peering about the rocky bottom of the English Channel...