Word: mersey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month) in white-hulled, white-topped, square-rigged ships, "with no steam at all." First of his family to follow the sea, he left his Lake District home for the long (about 100 days each way) run through the clean seas that lie between Liverpool's dirty Mersey and Rangoon's dirty Irrawaddy. Out with salt and back with rice, Captain Illingworth remembers now. "It was a hard life and a good life," he says, "and I like to think there will never be a better way of learning this trade. We used to say, 'When...
Britannia's pride took a beating as the waves ruled. The liner Mauretania, refurbished for the transatlantic run, was caught in the storm during her trial run. Unable to berth because of the rolling waves in the Mersey River, the big (35,000 tons) Mauretania was stranded for four days off Liverpool, while her 400 guests fretted. Among the passengers was Sir Alexander Maxwell, head of the Government's Tourist Board, who missed 14 meetings at which he was to speak on the joys of travel on British ships. The undamaged Mauretania (she is due in New York...
...harbor of grimy Liverpool, swept by racing tides and shrouded in fog or rain a good part of the year, is a nerve-tester for ship pilots. Last week the test was easier. At seven control stations along the Mersey basin, seven navy-type radars scanned the crowding river traffic. Their electronic eyes could pierce the blackest night, the soupiest fog or rain, spotting every ship, buoy, dock or shoreline. Dock masters could warn a scuttling ferry (in appropriate nautical language) that a long, lean liner was fixing to cut her in two. They could guide a blank-blank collier...
Ships can now enter Liverpool harbor in any weather, avoiding expensive delays at the Mersey's mouth. Britain's War Transport Ministry will soon set up radars at London and Southampton. Eventually it hopes to extend the system to all of Britain's fog-plagued harbors...
...completed, it will be second in size only to St. Peter's huge basilica in Rome. Nazi bombs have shattered some of its stained glass and scarred its walls, but have left mainly intact this massive red sandstone peak to St. James's Mount above the River Mersey...