Word: excaliburs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four Aces. The 9,644-ton, 17-knot Excalibur, first of the American Export Lines' postwar "4 Aces," sailed from New York harbor on its maiden run to the Mediterranean, reopening the line's first-class travel after eight years. Excalibur has a swimming pool and air-conditioned cabins and carries 124 passengers. Her three sisterships, Exochorda, Exeter and Excambion (replacing vessels lost during the war) will go into service in the next two months...
Washington admitted: five U.S. transports totaling 53,000 tons sunk by submarines off Casablanca, Rabat and Algiers. The five, which went down with wartime paint and wartime names, were once well-known passenger ships: American Export Line's Excalibur and Exeter, American President Line's President Cleveland and President Pierce and Grace Line's luxury liner Santa Lucia. Casualties were "very small," said Washington...
American Export Airlines began commercial nights last week on its long-awaited transatlantic service. First to cross was the 30-ton flying boat Excalibur with 16 high-priority passengers, several tons of urgent cargo. Out of luck were dozens of "first flighters" who applied for bookings...
...next month Excalibur, with its sister ships, will provide six transatlantic schedules' weekly as Am Ex joins Pan American and British Overseas Airways as a full-fledged Atlantic operator. Biggest hitch: Am Ex has no U.S. mail contract, main spring of every successful U.S. airline...
...longest and bitterest fight in U.S. aviation history officially ended last week. In spite of war's hell, high water and Pan American Airways, CAB approved American Export Airlines' petition to fly the New York-Foynes, Ireland route. Using its new $700,000, four-engined flying boat Excalibur (TIME, Jan. 26), Am Ex expects to make its first nonstop Atlantic crossing in April. For May-when two sister boats will be ready-its ambitious schedule calls for three crossings each way every week...