Word: quarterdeck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Admiral Nomura, who knows the difference between a quarterdeck and a quartermaster but is a little hazy on parliamentary procedure, came away from the next Cabinet meeting a sad man. "I am like a naval officer," he said, "who has been sent out to sink an enemy ship -and failed." The plan was going through...
...Reginald Everett Gillmor, who was commissioned an ensign in 1909 just in time for assignment to U. S. S. Delaware, the Navy's first dreadnaught. Delaware was also the first battlewagon to be equipped with a Sperry gyroscopic compass and before he had walked many tours on the quarterdeck, Ensign Gillmor knew as much about it as the two electricians who had installed it: Thomas A. Morgan (now president of Sperry Corp.) and O. B. Whitaker (now Sperry Gyro's marine manager...
Since the death of Poland's Marshal Joseph Pilsudski there has been no picturesque, magnetic figure in Eastern Europe to compare with Hungary's Admiral Nicholas Horthy. He lives with quarterdeck simplicity in a small palace on the heights of Buda overlooking Pest, rules with the title of "His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary," gives the most brilliant balls in Europe in the Habsburg Palace across the way from his own, but never sleeps on the premises of the King and Emperor who does not exist in fact, although by legitimate inheritance the throne...
King George, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Elizabeth reached Portsmouth the evening before, spent the night on the 38-year-old royal yacht, Victoria & Albert. Early next morning newshawks with binoculars could see bareheaded Princess Elizabeth in pink, pattering beside her father round the quarterdeck for a brisk after breakfast constitutional. At 10:30 a.m. with the cool skies rapidly clouding over, the first admirals' barges began to arrive for an official reception, and as more cocked hats and gold lace than Portsmouth harbor had seen for two decades assembled under the yacht's awning the Royal Marines Band...
...present, starting with the little Estonian submarine Kalev and ending with the head of the line, the modernized U. S. battleship New York, flagship of the U. S. fleet during the World War. For a day retired Admiral Hugh Rodman, naval delegate to the Coronation, was back on her quarterdeck, flying his four-starred flag at her masthead...