Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea of convoying was scarcely more than mentioned last week at Nyon. And even in the patrolled lanes, only those submarines attacking contrary to the 1930 London Treaty rules-i. e., those which do not rise to the surface, display their true flag and give a freighter's crew time to take to the boats-would be counted outlaw. "Russia," snorted Comrade Litvinoff just before Russia signed, "expected something strong and vigorous...
Spain's diving Leftists presently clapped on iron censorship. The pirate crew, depending on their nationality, seemed destined to be either flaunted before the world or obliterated from the news as drastically as possible...
Boats have raced their lifeboat crews almost as long as they have been meeting in the harbors of the world but not until 1927 did lifeboat racing come into its own as an international sport. In that year the old Neptune Association, an organization of deepwater shipmasters and licensed deck officers, began holding international races of one nautical mile in New York Harbor, first of which was won by the crew of the Norwegian Segundo. In 1933, after the race had been increased to two miles. Robert L. Hague of Standard Oil Co. of N. J. donated a silver trophy...
Since the first year contestants for the Hague Cup have been obliged to use regulation-size boats, with a minimum length of 25 ft. 11 in., minimum weight including crew and ballast of 5,500 lb. Publicity-conscious shipping lines have taken to building special boats for the race, selecting crews by competition, giving them a month off work to train. Only contestants last week were the crews of Standard Oil Co. of N. J.'s W. C. Teagle and the Italian Line's Conte di Savoia, each of which had two legs...
...weeks out the favorable breeze freshened to a furious gale that threw the little bark high ashore on "an uninhabited and dangerous reef known as Wake Island." Before the storm pounded her to pieces, passengers and crew, thankful to be alive, recovered bit by bit stores and cargo-burying the latter deep in the coral sand. But their thankfulness turned to horror as the most intensive search produced no fresh water. Deciding to leave this dread, lonesome spot, they labored for three weeks to repair & supply longboat and gig salvaged from the wreck. Twenty...