Word: coxswains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bureau-type tank lighter was in trouble. She appeared to have a tendency to dive . . . was taking considerable water aboard. She stopped several times and members of the crew could be seen manning hand pumps. . . . Once when under way . . . it appeared that the lighter was going to overturn . . . the coxswain had left the pilot house and was steering the vessel from the rail" (obviously preparing for a quick getaway if she foundered...
...Salts. The middle-aged men and able-bodied gaffers who give their time to the TR are salty as mackerels. Among them: Apprentice Seamen Lewis O. Barrows, ex-Governor of Maine; Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pop Concerts. Faithful members of Flotilla 415 of Rockport, Mass. are septuagenarians Coxswain Dan Woodbury, ex-marine architect, Carl Green, ex-fisherman...
...dock Commander Higbee found a puddle of oil, threw a cigaret in it, watched it blaze, ordered a coxswain to put it out. Then on a dry lumber stack near by he pinned his card: "Dear Watchman: I was here; where were...
Despite the fact that the unseasoned Radcliffe oarsmen cannot row much more than fifteen minutes a day, Miss Clarke, toughened by her years of experience, and serving only as coxswain manages to work up a sweat on a few delicate feminine brows. In fact the girls, though fond of their storn mentor, definitely agree that she is "hardbeiled." As one young thing commented, "She won't even let me powder my nose...
...temporary Reserve into the regular Coast Guard went Beauhunk Victor Mature, who enlisted as a coxswain, left behind Hollywood's cracks about the Reserve being a soft spot...