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...Front. His account of the war at sea was the brightest yet: ". . . For the four months which ended Sept. 18 no merchant vessel was sunk by enemy action in the North Atlantic...
...Boats. The LST, 327 ft. long and 5,500 tons, is really a medium-sized freighter whose bow gapes open like jaws to discharge cargo. Developed late in 1941, the vessel was a peculiarly tough problem in design, since it had to be capable of carrying and loading hundreds of tons of tanks, seaworthy enough to cross oceans under its own power, shallow-draft enough to put the tanks directly ashore. It carries a full operational crew and is usually commanded by a senior grade lieutenant, Navy or Coast Guard...
...came abreast of the Navy patrol vessel marking our line of departure, the assault waves bunched up and shells fell in among them. We needed no order. We broke column, went into a skirmish position and throbbed toward shore like so many racing boats, close together, with motors roaring and spray flying...
Late in September 1941 the Germans moved in, made an air base at Longyear City, from which they could harass Allied shipping to Murmansk. Six months later a Norwegian force returned. Eighty-two of them in an icebreaker and a fishing vessel crawled up Green Fjord, where they were sighted and attacked by German Condors. One ship was sunk, the other set afire. Survivors climbed out of the subfreezing water on to the ice and got ashore at Barentsburg, carrying their wounded, 15 skis, a few rifles and a single, broken lamp...
Cargill's left-handed thinking and high grain-shipping rates shoehorned it into the boat business in 1937. Smart, mathematics-minded Cargill president, John H. MacMillan Jr., designed his own unconventional low-cost "articulated unit" barge vessel, that looked like four boxes hooked together with springs and cables. When old-line shipyards refused to have anything to do with such a crazy thing, Chris Jensen turned out the unit in an improvised shipyard beside the Cargill grain elevators in Albany, N.Y. Only grief it ever met was a storm on Lake Michigan, which sank it in 60 feet...