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Several observers, M. Le Gall among them, have seen schools of fish turn toward the ASDIC-emitting vessel. Why they do it, he does not know, or even whether they do it regularly. He intends to find out. But if fish do-voilà! In future, schools of herring may be seduced by ASDIC right into kippering plants...
...West rushed this terrible news to the outside world. Covering the main deck with swathes of freshly cut grass, Pilot Marsh took aboard some 50 of the wounded survivors, ordered his engineer to get up a head of steam, drove his vessel from the mouth of the Big Horn to Bismarck, Dakota Territory, in 54 hours- at the unprecedented speed of 13 miles an hour. The local telegraph office had the news within minutes of the Far West's arrival. The next morning the world at large had it-Bismarck, D.T., July 5, 1876: General Custer attacked the Indians...
...transports with tens of thousands of Armenians, have been shuttling for the last three months from Mediterranean ports through the Dardanelles toward Russia. One of the ships, the former Italian liner Saturnia (rechristened Rossia), brought gasps from disconsolate Turkish citizens on Istanbul's docks: it was the biggest vessel ever to pass through the Bosporus...
...shoddy conduct of some newsmen. "Many . . . apparently had never been aboard a naval vessel before. Some acted as if the trip was the Lost Weekend. A few tipped the crew and messboys with large bills as if they were in a nightclub. Drinking and drunkenness . . . [were] for a time prevalent, and some . . . gave liquor to the crew...
...funnel built into the forward part of her island had been blown across the deck. Like other vessels in the inner ring, she had been swung around so that her bow faced the detonation point. But the force which had done this had finished the Sara. The only vessel in the target array with a triple-skinned hull, she had nevertheless been ripped open below the waterline. Slowly she settled, listing ever more sharply; seven hours later the 33,000-ton carrier sank...