Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Author C. Northcote Parkinson [June 14] should be flogged around the fleet for suggesting that Hornblower was responsible for the timely death of H.M.S. Renown's dread Captain Sawyer. Any Hornblower student worth his salt pork knows that the most likely author of Sawyer's assist down the hatchway was Henry Wellard. Wellard is known to have suffered repeatedly under Sawyer's sadistic paranoia, and was described as "highly agitated" on the night of the incident. The testimony of the Marine corporal, Greenwood, places Wellard with Hornblower near the hatchway, and both Marine Captain Whiting and Lieut...
Beginning in 1955 with an aging tramp steamer, Pao has built a fleet of 3.5 million tons, most of it in ultramodern supertankers and bulk carriers. By comparison, Niarchos controls 3.4 million tons and Onassis 4.3 million. Pao's navy has the distinct advantage of being practically brand new. But by early 1975, when some $800 million in new ships that he has already ordered are delivered, the Pao armada will total about 10 million tons. With an average age of less than 3.5 years, it will be the largest and newest private fleet on the seas...
...defend itself against the Russian missiles, the Sixth Fleet has patched together new responses in recent months. Two 240-ton patrol gunboats superpowered by jet engines have been transferred from Viet Nam as an experiment. The gunboats move so swiftly (top speed: 40 knots) that their crews must be strapped into their stations. Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., who is Chief of Naval Operations, has dubbed them "triple trailers" because they are assigned to lurk behind the Soviet vessels that trail U.S. ships...
Ultimately the Navy and the Administration will have to make some new decisions about the Sixth Fleet's makeup and mission. It now defends NATO's supply lines, provides a small but sinewy landing force, supports and protects the Polaris nuclear submarines that operate out of the U.S. bases of Rota, Spain, and Holy Loch, Scotland, and furnishes a nuclear punch in ease of war. With aging ships and outmoded ordnance, it is difficult enough to carry out those assignments. Since the fleet is taking on the added mission of neutralizing the Russians, the job may be growing...
Shnayerson, who adopted him when he was eight. Shnayerson was subsequently shipped off to a succession of twelve schools. "It was," he recalls, "a miserable but interesting childhood, the kind that-if you survive-makes you stronger for having had it." After World War II service in the Navy (fleet oilers, submarines), he worked briefly as a junior reporter for the New York Daily News before enrolling at Dartmouth, where he became the college middleweight boxing champion and ran on the cross-country team. To maintain his fit condition, Shnayerson runs four miles each morning in Manhattan's Riverside...