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...priority in Fidel Castro's Cuba. In the holds of the 4,310-ton French freighter La Coubre, were 76 tons of Belgian artillery shells, grenades and small arms ammunition. Most of it never reached its destination. At that hour, a shuddering blast rocked the vessel, hurling exploding shells, steel deck plates and human fragments aloft in a pillar of fire...
...coastal trade is limited to U.S.-built ships.) But if they were built at home, the cost would run between $10 million and $12 million per vessel...
...enter the U.S. as "fabricated steel.'' McLean turns them into ships by simply buying old T-2 war-surplus tankers, hiring U.S. yards to graft the bows and sterns onto his German midsections, thus qualifying as "built in America." Total cost: less than $5,000,000 a vessel, a saving of 50% to 65%. So simple is the idea that other U.S. firms (e.g., American Ship Building) have ordered the midsections for several big ore carriers from Schlieker...
Because Skipper Peace is exactly the kind of cavalier that the reader, actuality aside, knows himself to be, the swoops of a hyperbolic plot hardly matter. What is the man doing off the coast of South West Africa in a vessel fitted out as a lowly trawler, but bearing high-speed engines in the hull of a yacht? The shoreline he approaches is forbidden, diamond-rich territory; is Peace after contraband...
When he was 26, Richard Wagner, with his wife Minna and his dog Robber, boarded a small (100-ton) Prussian-owned vessel and set sail from Pillau for London. The stormy passage that followed took more than three weeks instead of the customary eight days, and the superstitious crew angrily blamed Wagner and his wife for their bad luck. From the experience of that voyage Wagner conceived his opera The Flying Dutchman, which was never popular in Wagner's own lifetime, has met with varying luck ever since. Last week, after an absence of nine years, it appeared...