Word: pickerel
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...patrolling his beat on the Lake Superior waterfront when the propeller of a passing ship stunned a fish and knocked it to the surface. A seagull swooped down, grabbed the fish, then dropped it on the dockside at Turner's feet. It was a 2½-lb. pickerel...
...route to Far Eastern waters by way of Pearl Harbor was Rear Admiral Walter F. Boone's Task Force Yoke,* made up of the carrier Philippine Sea, the cruisers Helena and Toledo and nine destroyers. The submarine Pickerel and the escort carrier Sicily, its decks loaded with warplanes, were also on their way across the Pacific. Still off the California coast as last week ended, the carrier Boxer and the escort carrier Badoeng Strait were expected to set sail in a few days...
Twenty-one days after she submerged off Hong Kong, the new U.S. snorkel submarine Pickerel surfaced last week off Pearl Harbor, a quarter-way around the world. Her record: 5,200 undersea miles, with only the mouth of her snorkel breathing tube showing her trail on the surface. A few misgivings tempered the Navy's pride in its achievement: after all, Russia -equipped with a fleet of the latest snorkel subs of her own-could launch precisely the same kind of run from the coast of Communist China...
Land of Plenty. The hills themselves had nearly everything Gil wanted-pickerel and bass and trout, possums and red deer, yarbs for medicine. Gil only needed a few dollars now & then for tobacco, salt, flour. In the old days, it was easy to make a few dollars. All he had to do was cut a little hard maple, sell it as fuel for the brick kilns at Haverstraw. Even the locomotives on the Erie Railroad burned wood for a long time. But all that gave...
Also lost in other U.S. naval operations: in the Mediterranean, the submarine chaser PC 496 and the salvage vessel Redwing. Off the North Carolina coast, the gunboat Plymouth. Presumably in the Pacific, the submarine Pickerel...