Word: motorships
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...power station. There were brass bands and the Volga People's Choir, flags and gigantic pictures of Lenin and Nikita Khrushchev. As Party Boss Khrushchev stepped jauntily forward and cut the ribbon stretched across the lock gates, he beamed a toothy smile at cheering excursionists aboard the motorship Dmitry Pozharsky, the first vessel to pass through the locks. He moved on to the engine room of Turbine No. 17 and pulled the handle of the automatic starter. As the turbine began to rotate, sending the first current into the network, Nikita embraced and kissed Electric Welder Aleksei Ulesov...
...clear, moonlit night, the 9,786-ton Norwegian motorship Skaubryn plowed through the long swells of the Indian Ocean, six days south of Suez, bound for Australia with 1,088 passengers-mostly German and Maltese emigrants-and a crew of 200. At 8:45 p.m. trouble broke out in the engine room. A disconnected fuel line spurted a torrent of oil ?. onto red-hot exhaust pipes. Within seconds, the engine room was a coiling mass of flames. The engine-room crew were driven out before they could even shut off the spurting...