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USS Tuna (SS-203) was a United States Navy Tambor-class submarine, serving in the Pacific during World War II and earning seven battle stars for her service. After the war, she participated in the Bikini Atoll atomic testing in 1946.
When the tuna boat’s helicopter spotted Shaddock’s catamaran about 1,200 miles (1,930 kilometers) from land, it was the first sign of humans he had seen in three months, Shaddock said.
A Simon Lake design, G-2 was named Tuna when her keel was laid down on 20 October 1909 by Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Virginia (a contractor for Simon Lake). [3] She was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the tuna , a large, vigorous, spiny-finned fish highly esteemed for sport and food.
A young man goes to work on a tuna boat to earn money to pay off debts. When his friend Frankie Pereira fails to place the wager of a ruffian named Ransom at the racetrack and the 10-to-1 longshot wins, Alec MacLennan is left holding the bag after Frankie flees. Forced to pay off the debt, Alec takes a job on the Pereira family's tuna fishing boat.
Dr. Thomas O’Brien and his wife Ruth Reardon O’Brien, the parents of late night comedian Conan O’Brien, have died three days apart. Thomas was 95 and Ruth was 92. Thomas died on Monday, Dec ...
Two survivors of the bombing — each 100 or older — are planning to return to Pearl Harbor on Saturday to observe the 83rd anniversary of the attack that thrust the US into World War II.
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Two men "brutally attacked and killed" a friend after wrongly accusing him of stealing a bank card. Jonathan Hutty, 49, was "violently assaulted" and found with a severe head injury inside a flat ...