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...steamed along in a convoy last week, her 65,000 square feet of flight deck glistening under the Mediterranean sun, she seemed unsinkable. Men on the off watch were washing up for tea. Suddenly there was a crash amidships to starboard; all over the ship the lights went out. Every man knew that the Ark's luck-insurance had lapsed. A torpedo had found...
...destroyer was swinging hard to port at the time of the hit. Ensign Lyman heard a terrible roar as the warhead bit through the Kearny's armor. The explosion killed seven men stationed in the forward boiler room on the steaming watch. Its force ripped up through the deck, wrecked the starboard wing of the bridge, knocked the forward stack back and broke the siren cord so that its shrill yowl could not be shut off. Four others disappeared, probably blown overboard...
Recovered and undaunted by the defeat, the Cheer King hastened to hint that movies of the Princeton game would be shown Thursday night, and a rally is on deck for Friday night in the Varsity Club Quadrangle. Definite announcements, he said, would be made tomorrow...
...tell what this ship was supposed to do for her country in wartime." They point out that almost every construction detail of the Normandie makes for easy conversion. With her enormous length (1,029 feet), her broad beam (119 feet), she has plenty of space for a fine flight deck. Her two working stacks (the third is a dummy) are both fed by flues that run up her sides to her topdeck. It would be a simple job of reconstruction to shift the funnels to the sides. Her four main passenger elevators are grouped in one big shaftway...
Throwing them all together, ship builders could install a platform elevator large enough to move aircraft to the flight deck...