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...Columbia, Sceptre was financed by a syndicate, eleven members of the Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes. She was also designed for heavy weather. In trial runs, Sceptre looked her best when fighting to windward in a running sea. Free to move fast and safely in her yawning cockpit, her crewmen could put their stabilizing weight where it was needed. But some British experts were grumbling that Scottish Designer David Boyd, 55, had made Sceptre too rugged. With a foot less waterline length (45 ft. v. 44 ft.), Sceptre's displacement is 68,000 Ibs. compared...
...eleven crewmen of the 6-29 Enola Gay stood silently in the early-morning darkness, eyes fixed on a solemn, balding Navy captain with a staggering burden: two cans filled with 137.3 Ibs. of uranium 235. At 0245 hours on Aug. 6, 1945, the Enola Gay lifted heavily from the long runway at Tinian. Within minutes. Captain William Sterling Parsons climbed into the stuffy bomb bay. Thus began five fateful hours in Liman history...
...uranium masses. One mistake could have vaporized Deke Parsons, the eleven crewmen and the Enola...
...sleek steel hull of a nuclear submarine moved easily and rapidly through the quiet depths, its reactor-driven geared turbines purring, its coffeepots perking, its jukebox playing, its 116-man crew caught up with an unusual sense of excitement. On the submarine's closed-circuit TV screens, the crewmen could see an upward-pointed camera-eye view of an ice pack, lit up by the Arctic's 24-hour-a-day sunlight, like a translucent cloud racing by. In his cabin, a slim U.S. Navy commander wrote out in longhand a couple of messages-one addressed to President...
...depth there was 13,410 ft., exactly 1,927 ft. deeper than previously estimated. An electrician's mate first class was sworn in for re-enlistment-the first man, the Navy pointed out, who had ever re-enlisted at the North Pole. Eleven new crewmen got their qualification on nuclear submarines. And as they headed on from the Pole, the 116 crewmen-the most men ever assembled at the North Pole at one time-sat down to a meal of steak, French fries, creamed peas and carrots, fresh fruit salad and a North Pole cake that signified their first...