Word: flagship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Admiral Thomas C. Hart and Shanghai Consul General Clarence E. Gauss, who were about to leave on Admiral Hart's Flagship U. S. S. Augusta for Manila for talks with Commissioner Sayre. The subject: what should...
...Empire, Prime Minister Chamberlain declared: "Already we know the secret of the magnetic mine and we shall soon master it as we have already mastered the U-boat." But these words went out to the tune of more titanic explosions, under the hulls of Pilsudski, the 14,294-ton flagship of the Polish merchant marine, chartered by the British Government when Poland disappeared, and of Spaarndam, 8,857-ton Holland-America freighter in the Thames estuary. Aboard Pilsudski, torpedoed northwest of Britain, were only her Polish crew and some British cooks, of whom seven perished. Captain Mamert Stankiewicz, injured...
...sail, impatiently awaited the monster in Boston. The little motorship North Star, loaded with sled dogs and supplies, was due to shove off for Philadelphia, where she was to take aboard airplanes, proceed to a New Year's Day rendezvous in Little America with the expedition's flagship, Bear...
...memory serves me, Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty (no kin, unfortunately) had as his flagship the Lion and was leading five battle cruisers just before the battle of Jutland, May 1916. At that time the Lion was torpedoed and put out of commission, and Admiral Beatty transferred his flag to another ship...
...Flagship of the British Grand Fleet in 1914 was Jellicoe's Iron Duke. She lay anchored last week in Scapa Flow at almost the exact spot near the Calves (rocks) of Cava where Reuter's ships went down. Four days after Prien's U-boat raid, Nazi planes in five waves swept over the Flow plunking bombs. They approached from the north over the central port of Kirkwall, where 60 neutral ships waiting to be searched for contraband saw them, and from the south over Duncansby Head and John O'Groat's, where British fighters...