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Later, the fire abated, Bradbury led a party back aboard the half-gutted vessel, got the fire under control and took her into port. The rescue was one for Navy history books, but nobody had explained the fire...
...amounted to sub base commander at Coco Solo, Canal Zone. Despite the fact that the destroyer Young under his command followed six others on to the rocks of Point Honda in 1923, a court-martial commended Calhoun for his "coolness, intelligence and seamanlike ability after the vessel stranded, which . . . was responsible for the greatly reduced loss of life." Calhoun's career moved upward through battleship and base force cofnmands...
...Navy was gradually getting the better of U-boats in the Atlantic. At the same time the first chill of autumn, bringing intermittent fogs, marked the opening of better weather for submarines. But possibly neither of these things was so important last week as the launching of a vessel which, when completed, will be the only United Nations battleship afloat able, without giving odds, to take on the powerful Nazi Tirpitz, sister of the sunken Bismarck...
Biggest naval disaster of recent years on the Charles River occurred at 5:47 o'clock Friday afternoon, as the S. S. Boonie, massive sight-seeing vessel, collided with a brand new 1941 single above Weeks Bridge...
...sculler was on a parallel course with the Boonie and was racing along in a competitive spirit when he caught a crab, and his craft was turned broad-side to the onrushing Boonie. Blinded by the late afternoon sun, the captain of the larger vessel failed to notice the frail ship directly in his course, and they met with a rending of sculls...