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Page 95
With a good crew , such a gun could fire thirty high explosive shells a minute ,
until the barrel turned red . At night we lay at anchor inside the minefield . The
nightly motion picture , standard in the smallest Navy ships , was not for Lanikai .
With a good crew , such a gun could fire thirty high explosive shells a minute ,
until the barrel turned red . At night we lay at anchor inside the minefield . The
nightly motion picture , standard in the smallest Navy ships , was not for Lanikai .
Page 130
It was expendable , which an anchor was not . In that coral - fouled bottom an
anchor could irretrievably hang up . So much excitement had been caused by the
hairy approach that nobody had paid much attention to the distant surroundings .
It was expendable , which an anchor was not . In that coral - fouled bottom an
anchor could irretrievably hang up . So much excitement had been caused by the
hairy approach that nobody had paid much attention to the distant surroundings .
Page 258
In the Yangtze , there was a constant peril of silt piling up on a dropped anchor ,
so that when the inexperienced skipper decided to up anchor and get under way
once more , he would discover the river bottom had so built up that his windlass ...
In the Yangtze , there was a constant peril of silt piling up on a dropped anchor ,
so that when the inexperienced skipper decided to up anchor and get under way
once more , he would discover the river bottom had so built up that his windlass ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Cruise of the Lanikai: Incitement to War |
| Author | Kemp Tolley |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Krieger Publishing Company, 1982 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 7 Nov 2008 |
| ISBN | 0898745268, 9780898745269 |
| Length | 345 pages |
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