aloft
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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aloft, above, overhead, also anywhere about the upper
yards, masts, and
rigging of a
square-rigged ship and other sailing vessels.
‘Away aloft’ was the command for
topmen in square-riggers to take up their stations on the masts and yards. In the days of sail
gone aloft was a sailor's phrase for a seaman who had died.
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Unsinkable Lusitania sails on. (Lusitania Federal Credit Union converts to Lusitania Savings Bank)
Magazine article from: American Banker; 10/23/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...examiners and jumping regulatory hurdles, Lusitania Federal Credit Union on Sept. 1 became Lusitania Savings Bank. But so far the first credit...sign on their branch that still reads "Lusitania Federal Credit Union," and tackle other...
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 "Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)")
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Why did Lusitania REALLY go down?; As Merseysiders again pay their respects to those lost on the Lusitania, FELICITY NEWSON looks back at the latest conspiracy theories on its sinking.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England); 5/8/2002; 700+ words
; ...the greyhound of the seas'', the Lusitania began life as the pride of Liverpool...history, a German U-boat torpedoed the Lusitania on its way back to Liverpool. Incredibly...inquest into the loss of the Titanic, Lusitania captain Commodore William Turner, who...
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REMEMBER THE LUSITANIA.(two books about the sinking of the Lusitania)
Magazine article from: The New Yorker; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; The sinking of the Cunard liner Lusitania, on May 7, 1915, will always play...Of the two glamorous great ships, the Lusitania was the smaller by nearly a hundred feet...maiden voyage. Yet the scale of the Lusitania disaster, in terms of squandered treasure...
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Explorer hopes to end 78-year-old mystery of the Lusitania's sinking. (Originated from Orange County Register)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 8/2/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...the Irish Sea, the British ocean liner Lusitania lies rusting in a cold grave, the subject...May 1915. Did the torpedo strike the Lusitania's cargo area and ignite a secret supply...torpedo smash into one or more of the Lusitania's boilers, sparking an explosion that...
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Lusitania lookout; Flash back Maritime TALES.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England); 5/12/2007; 668 words
; ...first spotted the torpedo which sankthe Lusitania as she headed for Liverpool on May 7...torpedo blew a hole in her right side. The Lusitania began to sink and within 18 minutes she...total of 1,195 died in the tragedy Lusitania is featured in a new permanent exhibition...
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Lusitania horror.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England); 11/15/2008; 699 words
; ...THE sinking of the Cunard luxury liner Lusitania by a German U-boat submarine sent shock...danger of attack in British waters. Lusitania sailed from New York on 1 May, 1915...The fascinating exhibition Titanic, Lusitania and the Forgotten Empress at Merseyside...
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NCUA approval clears way for Lusitania Federal to gain thrift charter.(National Credit Union Administration, Lusitania Federal Credit Union)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: American Banker; 5/30/1995; ; 700+ words
; WASHINGTON-Lusitania Federal Credit Union is on the brink...Administration on May 24 unanimously approved Lusitania's application to convert its charter...union said the new entity, to be called Lusitania Savings Banks, will be operating by...
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TV Preview; `Lusitania': The Truths Beneath The Surface
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/9/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Geographic Explorer's" "Last Voyage of the Lusitania" at 9 p.m. tomorrow on cable channel...torpedoing of the British passenger liner Lusitania, which claimed 1,195 lives - many...tools can solve. In the case of the Lusitania, no search was needed. Its location...
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Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy
Magazine article from: Sea Classics; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; LUSITANIA: AN EPIC TRAGEDY By Diana Preston 532...walkerbooks.com Mere mention of the name Lusitania alone immediately conjures images far...into World War I, any reference to the Lusitania is at once synonymous with German treachery...
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Lusitania: Saga and Myth.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; Lusitania: Saga and Myth. By David Ramsay...308. $29.95.) The sinking of the Lusitania by U-20 in 1915 has always been overshadowed...before 1914, he traces the history of the Lusitania from its construction to the complex...
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Lusitania, Sinking of the
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
LUSITANIA, SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA, SINKING OF THE. On 7 May 1915, a German submarine sank without warning the Lusitania, killing 128 Americans. Since Germany had warned travelers against sailing on British or Allied ships, many believed...
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Lusitania
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Lusitania , Roman province in the Iberian Peninsula...The old identification of Portugal with Lusitania and of the ancestors of the Portuguese...largely ignored, but the creation of Lusitania may have had a faint echoing effect in...
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The Titanic and the Radio Act of 1912
Book article from: American Decades
...operator was asleep. A WARNING FOR LUSITANIA PASSENGERS On the morning that the British-owned passenger liner the Lusitania was set to sail from New York harbor...warning travelers that they boarded the Lusitania at their own risk. In early 1915...
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Dowden, Hester (Mrs. Travers-Smith) (1868-1949)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...Hugh Lane, drowned. Was on board the Lusitania." At that moment boys were selling...Hugh Lane described the scene on the Lusitania: "Panic. Boats lowered. Women went...to America before the sinking of the Lusitania. On her way home that day Dowden saw...
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America at War: From Neutrality to Belligerency
Book article from: American Decades
...Lexington, Mass.: Heath, 1993). The Lusitania Incident President Wilson's hope that...submarine torpedoed the British Cunard liner Lusitania , en route from the United States to...with Germany and resigned. Before the Lusitania had sailed, the Imperial German Embassy...
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