Word: queenstown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commanded a landing party of bluejackets and marines that was landed in San Domingo to safeguard American and foreign interests during a revolution. He saw service in the Gulf of Mexico in 1904 and commanded the Destroyer Tucker, which was in the second group to reach Queenstown, Ireland, in May, 1917, and operated from Queenstown and later on escort duty in the North Atlantic. In June, 1929, after two years spent in Central American waters, he was detached from command of the U. S. S. Cleveland and assigned to duty at Harvard. He has had two tours of duty...
Three thousand miles is the ship or train distance between San Diego, Calif., and Guayaquil, Ecuador (where President-Elect Hoover was last week, see p. 10), between Manhattan and Queenstown, Ireland, between Washington and San Francisco. Trains or ships join those traveled places in a few days. Getting to the trackless Poles takes months...
...Dublin, Mrs. Fitzmaurice packed her prettiest dresses to join Frau Koehl aboard the Dresden at Queenstown...
Said Captain Van Beek: "It was one hell of a trip. ... We had rough weather from the time we left Cherbourg until we reached Halifax. We had difficulty even getting into Queenstown. The storm reached its climax two days later, when the waves were 60 feet high, and the wind had a velocity of 110 miles an hour. . . . The leak probably was the result of a rivet being worked loose by the laboring of the vessel. It was found there was no danger to the vessel and that only one of the four oil tanks was affected...
...promoter and wildcat bunco artist, "P. A. L. Tangerman." Last autumn he published Vignettes of the Sea, much like William McFee's off-duty ruminations. The polyglot relations in East Side, West Side reflect his own. A deep-chested, straw-haired German, he married, in 1912, Maud Conroy of Queenstown, Ireland...