Word: collisional
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Collision
Succeeding old Bill Lutz, who died last spring at over seventy years of age, as the premier boat builder here, the 43 year old Dane takes great pride in his craftsmanship. Just now he is recovering with a veneer of Spanish cedal the hull of an eight which was wrecked...
Common Sense, loaned to her Honolulu Ad Club crew after a collision had wrecked their own ship, was the smallest boat in the fleet-27 ft. over all. Biggest was Fandango, C. E. Hoffman's 85-ft. auxiliary schooner. In his crew on Manuiwa, Harold G. Dillingham had famed...
A light drizzle cancelled the next scheduled run. When racing was resumed, Yankee won by 58 sec. over a 28-mile triangle. In a collision just before the start, Rainbow's bow made a dent in Yankee's bronze plating.
As the liner drew close it steered slightly to port of the lightship and speed was reduced to 16 knots. The oscillograph detector was not used to find the distance, but the liner's position was computed by cross-bearings from shore radio stations. Few minutes before the crash...