Word: vessels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Dollar Steamship Lines defaulted on a $7,500,000 federal loan. After the war, Dollar undertook a seven-year court fight with the U.S. Government for control of the ships, finally settled in 1952 for $9,000,000, half the proceeds from a public sale of the 17-vessel line...
...economic advantages of Dracones are their cheapness (about $5,600 for the 100-ft. job) and the fact that they can be pumped dry at the end of a voyage, rolled up, and shipped back to a source of oil as cargo of a small towing vessel...
After World War I, during which he served as one of the first pilots in the French naval air force, De Bisschop chartered a merchant ship and set out again on 'his wanderings. When his vessel foundered in a storm off the Azores, he went to China, became chief of the security guards in the French concession at Hankow in the 19205. There he teamed up with another French adventurer, Jean Tatibouet. Together De Bisschop and Tatibouet built a Chinese junk and for two years cruised the Pacific and Indian Oceans. They lived eight months among Papuan cannibals, were...
Word leaked out that the Department of Transport has a well-advanced plan to build the free world's first atom-driven icebreaker. To displace 7,000 tons, the craft will have almost twice the power of a diesel-engined vessel, probably cost around $40 million, three times more than Canada's diesel-powered icebreaker Labrador. To build the new ship, Canada will need help from the U.S., but since a Canadian icebreaker would be a major addition to joint U.S.-Canadian forces in the Arctic, Canadian planners expect Washington to give all technical assistance-and a hearty...
...that present sound gear penetrates accurately to only about 800 ft. Another is that depth charges sink too slowly (14 ft. per second) to hit a fast sub sailing deep at high speed, and the explosion is reduced by pressure. U.S. submariners are also reportedly anxious to design a vessel capable of operating as deep...