Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lieutenant Commander MacKay, the only one of the present Harvard staff who has been given a definite assignment as yet, will assume his post as executive officer of the U.S.S. Vega, cargo transport ship plying between the East Coast and the Aleutian Islands, immediately. His present work in navigation duty here will be taken over by Berry and McRight...
Almost a half-century old is the U. S. law which prohibits foreign vessels from transporting passengers and cargo between U. S. ports, reserving this coastwise traffic for U. S. ships. Last year National Tours (Manhattan) struck upon the idea of chartering Cunard liners, conducting cruises-to-nowhere out of New York harbor and back. Fear of U. S. law forced a change in its plans, caused the cruise ships to put in briefly at Halifax to establish a foreign contact and technically break the voyage's continuity. Last week the American Steamship Owners Association was vastly upset...
...mast called out to clear the gun, and we had to fire. The stovepipe went flying through the air, and the captain of the steamer thought it was an aerial torpedo, so he immediately surrendered. When we took possession of the boat we found that its cargo was chiefly wines and Champagne...
...Crown Colony of Bermuda. It is not one island but a close group of some 300 forming a sort of fishhook about 14 mi. long. The islands were discovered in the 15th Century by one Juan Bermudez, a Spaniard who had the misfortune to be wrecked there with a cargo of hogs. Most of Bermuda's earliest visitations were forcible. In 1609 Sir George Somers was shipwrecked there, established the first permanent settlement and gave the little archipelago its alternate name of Somers Islands. The town of St. George, first capital of Bermuda, is named not for Britain...
Guessers. In the Bellanca seaplane Tradewind, Lieut. William S. MacLaren, former U. S. N. pilot, and his pupil Widow Beryl Hart, 27, transport pilot, took off from New York last week for Bermuda, Azores, Paris. Instead of a radio the plane carried a small cargo of advertised foodstuffs for "the first payload flight to Europe." In "rocking" the plane off the still water the flyers knocked to the floor their sextant - only navigating instrument aboard - but instead of turning back they elected to guess their course. Navigator MacLaren guessed right at first, picked up two steamers about halfway; guessed wrong...