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Admiral Sir Charles Bullen commanded H. M. S. Britannia at the Battle of Trafalgar and had a son named Richard Edward. Richard grew up to be a captain in the Royal Navy and had a son named Percy Sutherland. Percy grew up to be a newspaperman to beget five children and fill three inches each in the British Who's Who and Who's Who in America. Last week Percy Sutherland Bullen, 66, found himself being interviewed by newshawks in Manhattan. Reason: After 50 years with newspapers, 40 years with the London Daily Telegraph, 30 years...
...hand in at yachting. Five years ago, aged 40, he popped up as owner of Mouette which he sailed himself with astonishing skill. Two years ago he bought Shamrock V, Lipton's last challenge sloop, won season's honors with her against the King's cutter Britannia, 24 Hags...
George V's racing yacht Britannia finished up a season of 36 races last week with 24 new prize flags (twelve firsts, nine seconds, three thirds...
...aboard the black steam yacht Victoria & Albert that slipped between green flats and gravel scarps up Southampton Water. It steamed past the claw, past the great moored ocean liners packed for the day with sightseers, past the Empress of Britain loaded with schoolchildren, past massed choirs singing "Rule Britannia." It sailed toward a great spur of dock enclosing a bay and 400 acres of reclaimed land. Here, on the spearhead of Southampton's $65,000,000 port improvement project was a dry dock, built for $6,250,000, fit to bed down a 100,000-ton liner such...
...Stephenson's big sloop, Velsheda, with which he may challenge for the America's cup next year: her fifth victory in a row, in the Royal Clyde Yacht Club regatta, with King George's Britannia second and Shamrock V a poor third; at Hunter's Quay, Scotland. ¶ The New York Athletic Club Relay team: four of their five races at the A. A. U. Championships, where Glenn Cunningham set a U. S. record for the 1,500 meter run; in Chicago. ¶ The New York Giants: a doubleheader against the St. Louis Cardinals; both games...