Word: capts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...huge, 15 inch silver gilt bowl, made by Thomas Bolton, is in one of the cases. Its inscription reads. "The gift of the Honourable City of Dublin to Capt. George Sanders, commander of Her Majesty's ship Seaforth, for his signal services in taking two French privateers, being the first that were brought into this harbour this war. Anno...
...have wrote to Capt. Carmick, who is at Boston, to call on you & be your Friend. He is a Man of Spirit and will take care of you, but don't let me see you 'till you have wip'd away this Disgrace. ... On board the Ganges about 12 Mos. ago, Lt. Gale was struck by an Officer of the Navy. The Capt. took no notice of the Business and Gale got no satisfaction on the cruise; the moment he arrived he call'd the Lieut, out and shot him; afterwards Politeness was restored." Few days...
There were other starts--Torby Macdonald, flashy halfback and football leader, track dashman and baseball outfielder; Chuck Lutz, clever ball-handling basketball captain; Eric Cutler, stalwart distance man and captain of the swimmers; Robinson Stevens, captain and polished No. 7 man of the crew; Jack Wilson, crew stroke; Capt. Ace Cordingley and Bob Graves, of the golf team; and Dave Burt, tennis captain...
...Wall Street's head, in sun-flecked Trinity churchyard, lies the dust of Capt. James Lawrence beneath his self-written epitaph: "Don't Give Up the Ship." Dead with him is the naval tradition of wooden ships and iron men, of boarding parties and the cutlass: the soul of the new navy is in intricate organization, in armorplate, in complex fire-control mechanisms and in 16-inch guns...
WASHINGTON--Capt. Joseph A. Gainard of the U. S. freighter City of Flint, which was seized by a German prize crew last fall, was exonerated today of misconduct charges brought before the Burean of Marine Inspection by two members of the crew who charged that Gainard could have obtained release of the vessel before it was finally freed from its Nazi captors by the Norwegian government...