Word: coghland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early Sunday morning, the Coghlan, 75 miles off Ivigtut, sighted two black specks. Growing bigger and bigger, the specks became planes, whirred over the Coghland, then over the McFarland, 115 miles westward; then the Charles Ausburn, 115 miles further; then the Lawrence, 126 miles beyond. At last Admiral Magruder on the Richmond sighted two specks and ordered his ship to belch black smoke as a guiding signal. As the planes flew overhead and down to the beflagged moorings in Ice Tickle, the Richmond's siren shrieked a welcome. On a cliff overlooking the mooring place was fixed a brass...
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