Word: vessels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They burned the marketplace, tore down U.S. and French flags. From the hills around Saigon, Ho Chi Minh's guerrillas opened up on the destroyers with heavy mortar and machine-gun fire. The ships' crews were called to battle stations, but did not return the fire. Neither vessel was hit. A detachment of French troops finally dispersed the rioters. The casualty total: three dead,30 injured...
...made up his mind for him. His attorney went ahead with plans for appeal-just in case his bosses left him in the lurch. But they didn't. After four days, Gubichev got his orders: he would be shipped out on the Polish liner Batory, the useful Communist vessel which had once carried off ex-Communist Spy Gerhart Eisler as a stowaway...
...seamen can undertake-escape from a sunken sub. At 7:40 Hine opened the sea valves and began slowly flooding the compartment. He lowered a canvas funnel, big enough for one man to get through. At the top of the funnel was a hatch, opening outside the vessel. The bottom of the funnel was under the surface of the water in the compartment...
...Idea." All this time, the Admiralty did not know that the Truculent had been lost. Divina's Captain Hammer-berg explained: "I had no idea we had struck a submarine. We all thought it was some kind of surface vessel and that there would be survivors swimming in the water. We did what I considered-and still consider-the proper thing. We launched a lifeboat and threw out life belts. The survivors we did pick up were not in any fit state to talk and we continued rescue operations without realizing that it was a submarine...
Tight Little Island (Rank; Universal-International). To the rugged inhabitants of the mythical Hebridean island of Todday, off the Scottish coast, the middle of the war brought a calamity "wor-r-rse than Hitler-r's bombs": there was no more whisky. Then a U.S.-bound vessel carrying 50,000 cases of Scotch ran aground off Todday's craggy harbor. All that stood between the parched islanders and a joyously illegal salvage job was the bumbling Englishman (Basil Radford) who, as the island's Home Guard captain, felt constrained to enforce the letter...