Word: vessel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spee, maybe eight and one-half with all the truck-&-barnacles the German had picked up in the southern seas. The heavy cruiser was something to think about-8-inchers (they could crack most of the Spee's plate, including the control tower, from close range), and the vessel had an edge in speed...
...Ajax and Achilles turned out to be meat by no means. With spectacular coordination they kept each other smoked while driving in for bite after bite. They hurt the Spee, and badly. Some of her guns were silenced-one 5.9 turret tilted. Captain Langsdorff ordered his vessel to the nearest haven, Montevideo...
...hoped at the outset to have been of service to these people stranded in mid-Pacific but due to lack of financial backing it has been necessary to abandon the voyage despite the fact that the vessel is ready...
...facts in the case: in the protected waters of Alaska and British Columbia there are mountains of high grade iron ore and limestone, two of the essentials for making iron or steel, where the material can be quarried and placed on belts that take it directly to the vessel and then the limestone and iron ore can be taken by water to any point on Puget Sound, and at all times in protected water. Compare this with the conditions in Minnesota, for example, where they have to mine the ore, then take it by rail to the docks, load...
...German freighter Adolph Woer-mann (8,577 tons) slipped out of Lobito, Angola,* where she had lain interned since war began. With her escaped the German liner Windhuk (16,662 tons), a vessel built in 1936, reputedly for special war work: raiding. Germans in Lobito said Windhuk, heavily armed, had been altered to resemble a British ship. They also said the two ships had finally made a break because their crews were becoming restive, cooped up on short rations. Windhuk had a crew picked from other German ships lying in Lobito. She still carried several passengers stuck aboard...