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...since the Jumblies set to sea in a sieve had a less likely vessel ridden the ocean waves. Her name was the Cuss I, after Continental, Union, Shell and Superior oil companies. Squat and grey, she was 260 ft. long, lay low in the water and was crowded with stacks of pipe from stem to stern. Like a misplaced obelisk, a 95-ft. oil derrick sprouted amidships over an open well. But as the Ctiss I was towed out of San Diego harbor last week, the importance of her mission belied the oddity of her looks: when she gets...
...five-ton Soviet space vehicle carrying a female dog named Chernushka (Blackie) and "other biological objects" last week spun into a low orbit around the earth. Announced the U.S.S.R.: "After fulfilling the outlined research program, the vessel landed on command at a preset area of the Soviet Union on the same...
...record number of registrants, including half the crew of a United States Naval vessel, have enrolled in the University Department of Extension Courses' Spring Program...
...records of repair dated 1853 through 1855 state that the Constellation has the original keel, frames from six foot upward from the keel, ballast, and stem. It does state that the old vessel was taken down to bare structure and rebuilt as a sloop of 24 guns. It was pointed out to me that in 1852 the ship was placed in drydock to check her underside and that it was found that a false keel should have been made as her old keel was badly warped or bogged. I found that in July and August of 1853 the false keel...
...carrier is the third vessel to bear the name. The original Constellation, a 36-gun frigate, the Navy's oldest ship, is now a museum piece at Fort McHenry, Baltimore. Her namesake, a sloop of war, was built in 1855-although some historians insist that this was the original ship rebuilt and restored. Another Constellation, scheduled to be a battle cruiser, was scrapped after her keel was laid, as a result of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. * On March 19, 1945, in the Inland Sea, the flag carrier Franklin was hit by two Japanese bombs, engulfed in flames...