Word: vessels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assigned to N Division, which works on the knotty problem of providing nuclear propulsion for spaceships. He began to think about the great solar "wind," the sun's radiation blowing outward through the solar system, and how this solar wind might be used to drive a space vessel...
...they claim that high U.S. wages and taxes force them to fly foreign flags to compete in the international market. It costs $44,000 per month to run a U.S.-flag Liberty ship, $19,000 per month for a Liberian-flag Liberty ship. U.S. tax law requires a vessel to be amortized over 20 years, whereas convenience-flag ships usually do it in ten. The U.S. Maritime Administration recognizes these economic facts of life, tacitly encourages U.S. owners to build and operate ships under foreign flags, since they would be available...
...whole gale" warnings. Winds from the southwest gathered speed, rose to 40, 50, then 60 m.p.h. The Bradley beat its way through the mounting waves into the next day and the dusk. By then, the heavy seas were surging with 30-ft. waves, smashing at the 31-year-old vessel. In the pilot house. First Mate Elmer Fleming, 43, heard a thud. He spun around and looked toward the stern. The vessel was sagging aft of midships. Fleming made for the radiotelephone and cried...
...Sleep." The Bradley snapped like a stick. A few minutes later, as seamen in the forward part of the vessel pulled on their jackets and fought toward the rails, the stricken craft rolled over. First Mate Fleming and Deck Watchman Frank Mays pulled themselves onto a 4-by-8-ft. raft, began shouting to the others. "The sea was so great that men were hidden," said Fleming later. "We saw someone near and shouted him over to us." It was Deck Watchman Gary Strzelecki...
...flares were snuffed out. The three men on the raft spotted Deck Hand Dennis Meredith and pulled him aboard. They found five flares and a sea anchor inside the hatch of the raft. It was more than an hour later that they saw a rescue ship, the German motor vessel Christian Sartori. Fleming shot four flares, but the Sartori did not see them. Still the rescue ship, rolling as much as 50°, plunged toward the raft...