Word: bosun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kingsway came to anchor off Staten Island, N. Y., Federal men took Mr. Battice ashore to be tried for murder, with Donkeyman Badke a material witness and statutory offender. Seamen Hans Malibar, Frederick Kline, Alex Christiansen, Sig Scvhwanborg and Erik Anderson, with Thomas Murray, acting first mate and onetime bosun, were held pending formal entry of the almost obsolete charge, "mutiny on the high seas...
...unrecorded event in the history of that famous ship, the "Nancy Brig". Apparently she last touched at Singapore, Malay Peninsula, somewhere cast of Sucz, and there she has remained. For no sooner did she dock than the cook and the captain bold, and the mate, and the bosun tight and the midshipmite and the crew of the captain's gig, all swarmed ashore, ordered a drink and became at once the president, secretary-treasurer, election committee and sole member of what was destined to be a famous organization. Became in fact, the Harvard Club of Singapore...