Word: bos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having prettied up the trim Tabor-Boy, 18 Sea Scouts (none over 16 years) manned her for an eight-week cruise to the World's Fair. With Headmaster Lillard and Captain Lewis in command, the boys were assigned regular watches, holding all posts from able seaman up through bos'n and quartermaster to first mate. They sailed the Tabor-Boy down to New York, putt-putted up the Hudson to Albany where the 85-ft. masts were unstepped to clear the bridges along the canal to Buffalo and the Great Lakes. At ports of call along...
...carelessly strewn hats & overcoats of Committee members who sat in silence around the big horseshoe table. Facing the Committee from a small table at the mouth of the horseshoe stood a stocky, curly-haired young man in an open-necked Navy blouse, with the crossed white anchors of a bos'n's mate on his sleeve. He was Richard Deal, survivor of the crash of the Shenandoah and one of three survivors of the 76 who sailed on the U. S. S. Akron's last voyage. Gesticulating now & then with his bandaged right hand, he read from...
...Bos'n's Mate Deal detailed what he saw, heard and did from the moment the Akron cast off from Lakehurst at 7:30 p. m. April 3, bound for the New England coast. He related his last conversation with Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, the most distinguished victim of the disaster...
...hour before midnight the Akron was being buffeted severely by a thunderstorm. Bos'n's Mate Deal went about his business of taking ballast readings, carrying out ominous orders to shift ballast and fuel forward. At his next bit of testimony the committeemen hitched forward in their chairs...
When dovetailed with Bos'n's Mate Deal's story, the report of Lieut.-Commander Herbert Vincent Wiley was illuminating. Commander Wiley read his statement to the Committee in a detached, hesitant manner, as if the story were a new and strange one which he had never heard before. Bringing the now familiar events up to the fateful "00:30 [12:30 a. m.] 4, April," he read: "A very sharp gust struck the ship. It seemed to be much more severe than any I have ever experienced in that it was exerted so suddenly ... a maximum...