Word: capitana
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...three-masted barkentine Capitana, flagship of the University expedition retracing the voyages of Christopher Columbus, has reached the Azores...
...Capitana is now a barkentine, not a ketch...
...such a difficult position, TIME apologizes to all hands, fines the news service which supplied a wrongly captioned photograph one tot of grog, herewith prints the picture (and the real Professor Morison) in full. Of TIME'S many boatmen, no small number have made it clear that Capitana is indeed a barkentine and not a ketch...
...generous alumnus provided him with a suitable boat, he would be glad to pilot the donor over Columbus' whole route. Alumni and three foundations soon gave him a boat, sails, oils, wines, a surgical kit, heraldic designs and flags. When he sailed this week in his Capitana (named for the flagship of Columbus' third voyage), he had a few items that Columbus lacked: an auxiliary Diesel engine, a direction finder, a two-way radio set. Professor Morison headed for the Azores, where a second Harvard sailboat will join the expedition...