Word: chunkier
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...several times before-on the Baltic. Seven Seas was a Swedish training ship launched in 1912. U. S. Yachtsman Inglis Uppercu bought her in 1929. sold her last year to 74-year-old William S. Gubelmann (National Cash Register Co.). Joseph Conrad, older (1882), smaller (116 ft.), chunkier, was also a training ship-used by the Danish Government for 52 years. Three years ago Author-Adventurer Alan Villiers saw her in Copenhagen, heard she was for sale, snapped her up. took a crew of eight nationalities on a picaresque world cruise, wrote a book about it (Cruise of the Conrad...