Word: crew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Laying off until Thursday, the great Harvard sprint crew that met defeat at the hands of an even greater Navy outfit will begin its drive for New London and Yale late in the week...
...idea that the clean slate of the Varsity and Jayvee crews was not long to be preserved came when the Freshman crew received a decisive setback at the hands of the Navy Plebes. The same story was told in both preliminary races, where the Sailors jumped into a quick lead they never relinquished...
Past such colorful names as Skipjack, Puffin, Foxhound, Esk, Fearless, Wild Swanand Escapade the royal flotilla passed, with each ship, swathed in flags, banging out a 21-gun salute, her crew hand in hand, lining the rails...
...schooner, the Gypsum Queen, sank off the Irish Coast during a storm. The crew took to boats, were picked up by a freighter without loss of life. Fifteen years later the owner and captain, Freeman Hatfield of Nova Scotia, bobbed up with the story that the Gypsum Queen had been torpedoed by a German submarine. He claimed indemnity and in 1931 finally got from the Canadian Government $71,276,72. Year later Captain Hatfield abandoned the sea, went to the U. S.. opened a small chicken farm in Candia, N. H. An old seafaring friend of his lived there...
...seen the tragedy which cost 36 lives and $3,000,000,* wise old Dr. Hugo Eckener, world's No. 1 lighter-than-air authority, had spent a week looking at the wreckage, examining meteorological records, still and motion picture films, listening to the testimony of survivors and ground crew. When he took the witness chair, Dr. Eckener felt prepared to give the first comprehensive account of what happened...