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121Caulking — is a process used to seal the seams in wooden boats or ships, and riveted iron or steel ships, in order to make them watertight. The same term also refers to the application of flexible sealing compounds to close up crevices in buildings against… …
122Mikhail Lermontov (ship) — MS Mikhail Lermontov was an ocean liner owned by the Soviet Union s Baltic Shipping Company, built in 1972 by V.E.B. Mathias Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany. She was later converted into a cruise ship. On February 16, 1986 she ran aground on… …
123USS Skipjack (SS-184) — USS Skipjack (SS 184), a Salmon class submarine, wasthe second ship of the United States Navy to be named after the fish. Her keel was laid down by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut, on 22 July 1936. She was launched on 23 October… …
124Combined driving — The marathon phase …
125SS Admella — The SS Admella was an Australian passenger steamship which was shipwrecked on a submerged reef off the coast of Carpenter Rocks, south west of Mount Gambier South Australia, in the early hours of Saturday 6 August 1859. Survivors clung to the… …
126William Russell Sweet — (11/18/1860 10/15/1946) early American artist, painter and wood carver. BiographyWilliam Russell Sweet [Joy, Robert, 1954, Natural Bonesetters with special reference to the Sweet Family of RI , Bullentin of the History of Medicine, RI 28, No.3, p …
127Dryness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Dryness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 dryness dryness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 siccity siccity aridity drought ebb tide low water GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 exsiccation| exsiccation| desiccation …
128waterbed — (n.) 1610s, a bed on board a ship, from WATER (Cf. water) (n.1) + BED (Cf. bed) (n.). As a water tight mattress filled with water, it is recorded from 1844, originally for invalids. Reinvented c.1970 as a hip furnishing …
