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...American colonists) they despoiled France's Louis XIV of his important eastern Canada holdings except Cape Breton Island off the east end of Nova Scotia. From there French fishermen still went out to the Grand Banks and there they built a mighty fortress at Louisburg. From Nantasket, Mass, in 1746 set forth 4,000 colonists under Lieut. General William Pepperell to reduce this French threat to Anglo-Saxon supremacy in the northeast. It fell in a few weeks, was returned to France when King George's War (a Western Hemisphere overflow of Europe...
...Nantasket Beach, Mass., a bather thought he saw his wife weltering in the surf, frantically summoned lifeguards, who plunged in, rescued a beer...
Into the middle of the James River near Lee Hall, Va., last week tugs towed from her anchorage the dirty, 389-ft. freighter Nantasket, built in 1918 for the Wartime Emergency fleet. Aboard were experts appointed by the U. S. Senate's Commerce Committee to find ways of preventing future fires at sea as fatal as the Morro Castle disaster. While spectators lined the nearby shores, the experts proceeded to do their best to burn up the Nantasket...
...average stateroom. Located inside and outside each room were electric thermocouples connected with dials in a recording room. In each stateroom the experts started a fire, let it roar. In each case the inside heat reached 1,700°. This made the half-inch steel plates of the Nantasket turn red-hot and buckle. Glass doors cracked but held. Some of the panels under test bulged and transmitted intense heat to the outside. Others resisted it so well that the outside thermocouple registered only...
Satisfied that the fire-resisting material had shown them how to confine ship blazes to their place of origin, the experts disembarked from the gutted old Nantasket, refused to disclose which materials had made good, but announced that they would present their conclusions to the Senate as a basis for legislation to make all U. S. passenger ships completely fireproof...