Sentence:  Apperently Marconi could not give his ideas on the subject a practical shape himself but Taylor and Young of the Naval Research Laboratory (U.S. A.) seemed to have made use of his ideas when late in 1922, they used a 5m wavelength CW transmitter to detect a <WSD>woodship</WSD>. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A wooden ship.