Word: afloat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet, highest Naval officer afloat, is Admiral Frank Herman Schofield, whose appointment, announced last week, will become effective in September. Born 62 years ago at Jerusalem, N. Y., his home now is at Penn Van, N. Y. In 1898, eight years after his graduation from Annapolis, he was executive officer of the Hawk in the Spanish-American War. During the War he was on Admiral Sims's staff in London. Four years ago he was a member of the U. S. delegation to the abortive Three-Power Naval Conference at Geneva. Small, bespectacled, suggesting...
...Navy's decision, lay observers awarded the victory to the Blue forces whose aircraft had so damaged the Black ships that no effective landing was possible. Admiral Schofield's transports had been cut to bits; the decks of his battleships were shambles from air-bombs; his cruisers were barely afloat...
...little boat, a 19-day trip through seven fearful storms that amounted practically to one continuous storm. He had even held a camera steady enough to photograph the deck after a sea broke over the bow. Pinnacle and compass were washed overboard. Water poured in, set the food afloat in the galley. Five times a tilt of a wave threw the green-faced cook onto the hot stove. The men slept in their oilskins. For 18 hours Shamrock plowed through the Gulf Stream under bare poles. A seam opened in the delicate bow, bashed 'by tons of water every...
...Leviathan, loaded to the gunwales with ambitious Freshmen, plied its lumbering course up and down the Charles throughout the afternoon. There were 13 eight-oared crews afloat, four each of experienced Freshmen and veterans of the University season. Six boats of 150-pounders went out, also to try their oars for the first time this fall...
...open: to hunt, trap, ride, cook. One morning, when Will was a boy in his 'teens, he woke to find the camp fire almost out, and no Bopy in sight. They were camped near a river, and in the river the boy found their battered bucket still kept afloat by the ice. That was the only trace he ever discovered of the old Frenchman...