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Liquidation. Valdasar Lopez put a hose in a tugboat tank, turned on a valve, relaxed on deck while the tug took on water. He awoke in Manhattan's North River after the tug went to the bottom...
...Twas a balmy Sunday morning when our young disbursing officer Ensign Water Tight Drawers arose for his first day of duty. All of his specimens from the Harvard supply school were neatly stacked from the deck of the cabin to the roof ... Yes, he had this stuff cold ... The G. A. O. was just a blow ... After all congress passed a relieving bill to keep all D. O.s out of Portsmouth after the last...
There was a stiff breeze, and the blue Mediterranean waves wore little white hats. A seaman on the deck of a destroyer looked at those waves and at the shore of Tunisia beyond, and said: "I've been in three evacuations-Norway, France and Crete. I'm glad...
...ride those little ponies of the sea takes strength, wisdom and the ability to make quick decisions. A.B.C. commanded the Scorpion for seven years, and gave her sting. Once in the Aegean he took her right into the mouth of an enemy harbor with bridge defenses rigged, the upper deck clear of men, and seamen with rifles manning the bridge loopholes and mess-deck scuttles; and he conducted a rifle action against land troops at a range of 50 yards...
...class or over, carried 4.1-inch guns, anti-aircraft guns and six 21-inch torpedo tubes. Fueled and armed, they could cruise up to 15,000 miles for six to eight weeks, had enough torpedoes to sink at least half a dozen ships, ammunition for their deck guns to take care of more if they found stragglers who could be sent to the bottom by shell fire...