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...heaviest submarine in the world was ready to go back into action. Capitalne de Corvette Louis Blaison told his countrymen by short-wave radio last week that his vessel would soon again "seek out the enemy...
...Into Boston Harbor last week steamed the filthy, seaworn, ketch-rigged little (61-ton) Norwegian tub Busko, first Nazi sea victim of U.S. naval might, trapped off Greenland by a U.S. patrol vessel, escorted into the harbor by the old 703-ton Coast Guard cutter Bear, once a Byrd Antarctic ship. Aboard the Busko were radio equipment, skis, dogsleds, two dogs, a Gestapo agent, 18 Norwegian sailors, a woman and a boy. What was the status of the captives? Were they prisoners of war or (since the U.S. is not in the war) prisoners of defense? Under what law could...
Henry Shreve did not claim the $100,000, but he started building the boat. Amid sensational rumors and the hoots of river loafers, he laid the keel at Wheeling. "Talk of this hull never died. . . . The vessel defied every principle of shipbuilding." It "was exceedingly shallow of draft, but reared aloft with two decks, one above the other...
When the President reached New Or leans, Edward Livingston hurried down to look it over. "It was an odd vessel, he realized, only because no one had ever built a steamboat for the Mississippi. He could foresee that it would be the Valley steamboat of the future." "You deserve well of your country, young man," he told Shreve, "but we shall be compelled to beat...
...When I reached the top of the hill, the shooting ended. The nearest vessel was steaming southward and the other was visible only by her small column of smoke and I was unable to determine if this one was fleeing or had halted to attack. Afterward the nearest ship disappeared over the horizon...