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...Navy was quick to reply. "No U.S. warship seized any Russian ship," said Admiral Felix B. Stump, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The State Department summarily rejected the Russian charge as "without foundation." Then the Chinese Nationalist government spoke up: the tanker had been seized by the Nationalist navy, because its cargo of fuel oil was a strategic material and was consigned to a Communist company in Shanghai...
...forward to engulf the presidential reviewing stand. The photographers' platform swayed like a ship at sea and two cameramen fell off, a microphone stand was trampled into a pretzel. With his people breathing almost down his neck, the new President took his oath of office. From a U.S. warship in the harbor and a battery of Philippines artillery on the hill, two 21-gun salutes burst forth simultaneously. Then Magsaysay launched into his inaugural address...
...Riffraff." For Nigelock's crew, the excitement was old stuff. A week before, they had been captured by a Nationalist warship but released under the guns of the Royal Navy's frigate St. Bride's Bay. Nigelock is one of a hundred British merchantmen (some under charter to Red China) engaged in Chinese coastal trade. Its crew and skipper expect to run into trouble: war-risk insurance on the China coast is the world's highest...
...Ship. As the Sverdlov loomed through the early morning mist, a hum of excitement spread through the dockyard city of Portsmouth: she was the first Russian warship to visit Britain since the war. Old hands quickly noted that she was trim and tidy, that she was correctly dressed overall to honor the Duke of Edinburgh's birthday. Royal Navy liaison officers also marked her power (twelve 6-in. guns in paired turrets fore & aft, twelve dual-purpose guns, ten torpedo tubes, double sets of minelaying cables) and her probable speed (35 knots). Said the Admiralty: "We find her very...
...Moscow promised to send a Soviet warship to the June naval review in honor of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation. Red flags in Berlin were half-masted on the day of Queen Mary's funeral...