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Maritime Meanings

Peepers

Sailor's slang for eyes; the expression was in common use in ships at the beginning of the 1800s. The word has long since passed into common use, and is enshrined in at least one 1938 song of music-hall fame, the first line of which runs: "Jeepers

Creepers, where'd you get those peepers."

Source: An Ocean of Words: A Dictionary of Nautical Words and Phrases, by Peter

D. Jeans; Birch Lane Press , 1998 ... We All Live in a Yellow

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Hamburg-based Rickmers-Linie a "Yellow Submarine" to its list of extraor- dinary cargoes carried. A yellow tourist submarine, to be used for underwater excursions on the coast of Cheju Island,

Korea's biggest island, was lifted onboard

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Memories of the Beatles' song Yellow Submarine were revived recently when Rickmers-Linie shipped a yellow tourist submarine from Hawaii to South

Korea the 17,850 tons deadweight charter ves- sel Oasis in Honolulu. Hawaii. Weighing 100 tons, the 22.3 m long submarine was lifted aboard Oasis using the ship's own 125-ton derrick. Together with the sub- marine, a tender and spare parts were also loaded in Hawaii. The shipment was managed by AP Shipping, Gardena.

California and operations were super- vised by the Houston office of Rickmers-

Linie.

July 20, 1921 - A spectacular air blast during an NBS-1 bombing test on a captured

German battleship (Ostfriesland) off the

Virgina Capes. (Attention! The German battle- ship (Ostfriesland) is not a Lockheed Martin product) (Photo Courtesy Lockheed Martin)