Word: ballast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were the six survivors in the torpedo room not immediately safeguarded, when divers first reached the 54, by attaching airlines to the ship's "ears" (S. C. Tubes), as was done when too late, instead of to the ballast tanks, as was done at first...
Answer. One of Secretary Wilbur's most important answers was that the airline had been first attached, not to the S-4's ballast tanks, but to her general air supply system. When this system was found to be damaged, the air was transferred to the S-4's ballast tanks. Secretary Wilbur did not know why the air had not been transferred to the "ears...
...hulk and tapped with his hammer. Answering taps came from the torpedo room in the submarine's bow. Six men were still alive there. Their air was getting bad. Please hurry! Powerful compressors on tenders at the surface started pumping air into the S-4's forward ballast tanks. Perhaps she could be upended and her survivors cut free. But unless fresh air could be passed into the torpedo room; life there could be measured in hours...
...sank the Federal warship Housatonic though swamped and sunk herself by her torpedo's explosion. The French Plongeur of 1863 was 146 feet long, driven by compressed air motor. The significant features of the Holland experiments were the in troduction of a gasoline engine and of internal ballast tanks to admit and lower the ship's buoyance so that she could bs steered bottom-ward by horizontal rudders. The Holland type craft was first adopted by the British Navy...
...French park benches. He knows no more about sons of Irish-American pioneers than he does about Mongolian law or any other dull literary subject. Author Connell is an Irish poet who was made cheerful by being born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. With no sorrows of Deirdre for ballast, his fancy flies off on such tangents as The Prince Has the Mumps, which is said to have tickled the imperial risibilities of George...