Naval craft

Usage examples of seaplane.

Opposite the seaplane bases, six TBFs loaded with fragmentation and incendiary bombs peeled off, angled down through the tracers of light and medium AA and plastered their assigned targets.

Brigadier held the machine-carbine in his hands, for the Zero swung round in a tight turn and headed off back against towards the west in the direction of Sumatra, its sleek fuselage black-streaked with pouring engine oil: less than two miles away it met the seaplane returning, and the two planes disappeared together into the pale golden afterwash of sunset.

Jintsu, and 12 destroyers, together with seaplane carrier Chitose, tender Kamikawa Maru and other units, sortied from Saipan during that same evening.

Navy command ship bristling with radar antennas and other navigation and communications gear--six huge oceangoing tugs, five supply ships, a submarine mother ship, two tenders, two oilers, a small troop transport to accommodate the personnel who would work aboard the iceberg, a seaplane tender that had been converted into a floating laboratory and informationprocessing station, and a helicopter carrier with twelve personnel choppers and three huge transports with sixbladed counterrotating props capable of lifting twenty-five tons.

But the lagoon could comfortably hold seven hundred ships-destroyer tenders, submarine tenders, seaplane tenders, tankers, repair ships, ammo ships, supply ships, floating dry docks - so that Ulithi was in effect a secure base in midocean for the warships needing those services, and a rest area for battle-weary seamen who could sleep there all night with no GQs at dusk and dawn, get some mail, see movies, and have a beer and a steak and a swim on Mogmog.

Repair ship Vestal badly damaged, minelayer Oglala sunk, seaplane tender Curtiss damaged, miscellaneous auxiliary Utah capsized.

Spreading the top of a moosewood tree, Harry could glimpse a seaplane.

But Richard Tsao had said there were only two German seaplanes, and they were at Penang, a further two hundred miles beyond the intended target.

The plane was moored to the jetty, a small seaplane, very spick and span, bouncing up and down in what Annis considered to be a quite unnecessarily boisterous manner.

Ahead, from somewhere up the coast, came two Port Authority seaplanes, frighteningly fast.

For a moment the two seaplanes looked like sitting ducks as they headed straight for the balloon trains.

On the other hand, if you try to escape in the March Hare, the Coastguard seaplanes will find it without much trouble.

Tranquility Isle was in kilometers much nearer Plymouth than to Blackburne Airport, and if one knew the shoals, not much longer to reach in a drug boat than in a seaplane, which had to bank east out of Blackburne to catch the prevailing west winds in order to land on the sea.

Those seaplanes flew in four or five times after I got back here from Blackburne.

Tiger Cole was undergoing rehab at the Naval Aeromedical Institute in Pensacola and working out each day in the gym where the AOCS classes did their thing, in that converted seaplane hangar on the wharf.