Word: flagship
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Valona kept going northward. Some of them swept the Italian coast as far as Bari, a harbor right on the Achilles' tendon above Italy's heel. Another detachment swept northeast as far as Durazzo, Albania's second-best landing spot. Sir Andrew was on his flagship, had brought his fleet up on a quick run from the African coast, pausing to contact supply ships, after pounding the daylights out of Bardia and points west. While he was busy at Valona his light forces made it clear to all the world that the Adriatic was no longer Benito...
...Flagship of the squadron will be the PT-10. Like others of its class, PT-10 is essentially for offshore patrol. She carries 3,000 miles of cruising in her gasoline tanks, could cross the Atlantic if need be. But if they ever do go to war, best bet is that the Navy's new boats will cross the ocean on the decks of battleships or cruisers, or be shipped across the continent on flatcars...
...luxury liner Empress of Britain, flagship of the Canadian Pacific fleet, tenth largest of the world's liners, was attacked by a German bombing plane 60 miles off the northwest coast of Ireland. Despite heroic action by the Empress' anti-aircraft crew, a heavy bomb struck the ship, set her afire. Captain Charles Howard Sapworth, who was decorated last year after he brought King George & Queen Elizabeth back from Canada in the Empress, maneuvered his ship so that the flames were kept from the forecastle until, after five hours, her passengers & crew could be taken aboard British warships...
...return. General de Gaulle and some aides-including Captain Bécourt Foch, grandson of the late Marshal-boarded a launch and made for the basin, waving a white flag and a tricolor. They were greeted by gunfire, and two aides were wounded. General de Gaulle boarded his flagship and signaled an ultimatum. Dakar rejected it. From Vichy, Minister of the Navy Admiral Jean Darlan wired: "Remember the words of Joan of Arc, that 'peace is won only at the point of a lance...
...Spanish-American War, Cramp's built most of the famous White Squadron, including Admiral Sampson's flagship, the New York. U. S. men-of-war (many were of original Cramp design) made Cramp's world-famous. One day bearded Tsar Alexander II of Russia summoned equally bearded Charles Cramp to his palace, abruptly asked: "Mr. Cramp, at what school of naval architecture were you educated?" Said Cramp: "Your highness, I was educated in my father's shipyard, and he was educated in his father's shipyard. We founded our own school of naval architecture...