Word: buoying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hurricane by the time it crashed headlong upon storm-racked Cape Hatteras and started up the coast. Before it left North Carolina it had dragged the Diamond Shoals lightship six miles out of position, piled the four-masted schooner Kohler up on Gull Shoals. With a breeches buoy across a quarter-mile of snowy surf Coast Guardsmen took off nine men, a woman, a dog, two cats...
...near Santa Cruz, Calif, to watch a titanic battle of the deep. The waves foamed white as a great whale lunged, thrashed, leaped at its enemy. At last the whale, with a final spout of disgust, swam wearily away. As it went its unscathed opponent, a bobbing iron whistling buoy, moaned mournful triumph...
Release of the pigeons signalled the climax of the ceremony. While Commander Dresel, his 50 officers & crew stood at salute, Erection Foreman V. W. ("Red") Coffelt ordered "Up ship!" His workmen slacked off their cables, let the Macon's partial load of helium buoy her into the air some five feet. Another command and she was hauled down again, made fast. The Navy's second airship scouting cruiser had taken the air. She will remain in the dock a few weeks more for finishing touches...
...time the boats started the last race of the Cuba Cup series. In a close finish, the Shields brothers' Gull nosed out Skipper Iselin's Ace for first place. They had won the second race also, but a disqualification in the first, for fouling a buoy, left them tied with the Zelda of Nassau for second with 16 points. Harkness Edwards, who finished third in the last race with his Winsome, which he sails on Peconic and Gardiner's Bays in the summers, came in third; with a fourth in the first race and a second...
Scudding grey clouds and squally weather ushered in Cowes Week, Great Britain's chief yachting fixture. The regatta started with tragedy. Just before the first race the Britannia, King George's 38-year-old cutter journeyed for position by the starting buoy off Calshot Head, proud of her new Marconi rig with its towering hollow mast. King George was aboard, snugly dressed and eager for the day's sport. A squall struck the Britannia's vast mainsail. She heeled over and nosed into a grey comber. Right before King George's eyes the wash swept...