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Harvard swingers immediately made a bid for the lead and pushed ahead with the Elis closely astern. Well aware that a second place was sufficient to place in the final race in the afternoon, stroke Bill Kellogg of the Blue let the Crimson extend themselves to an exhaustive victory. The record fell by the winning 6:58 time, but Yale also bettered the course mark...
...Lakes ports but economy in Great Lakes ship design. Distinctive Lakes craft, introduced in 1906, is the standard 600-ft. bulk freighter, which resembles nothing so much as a huge steam barge with a minimum of upper-works fore & aft, engines and smokestack so far aft as to seem astern...
...Here's race to Gloucester that the interwoven stories come to their climax. After a night of reckless seamanship, both ships are standing clear, close-hauled on the port tack, all sails set and drawing, with the We're Here to the windward and astern of Jenny Cushman. Finding herself being overhauled, the Jenny Cushman craftily comes about, pointing across the We're Here's bows. By sea law, the ship on the starboard tack having the right of way, the We're Here should sheer off, but Disko holds his course. In a sequence...
...struck. Down to the engine room flashed the signal: FULL SPEED ASTERN. Four propellers, each as big as a bungalow, churned the chocolate-colored water to froth. It was too late. Bow and stern, the 80,773-ton ship was aground. Her own engines were useless...
Cunard White Star officials, mopping their brows with relief, called attention to the happy fact that in the few minutes that her engines raced full speed astern they had felt none of the vibration that has been the curse of the French Line's Normandie. Chief Engineer Llewellyn Roberts was too tactful to point out that full speed astern is considerably slower than full speed ahead...