Word: decks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went because he had signed a contract to sail her both ways. He had advertised for a crew and managed to get eight men. Five of them had worked on Enterprise in the races. Stimulated by success, they were ready for more adventures. The anchor was stowed below decks and everything battened down. Before they lost sight of Nantucket Light-ship the sea freshened. The cook got seasick, the barometer went down. It looked as if there might be trouble. Captain Irving Johnson took some notes of that wild homeward journey of the little boat, a 19-day trip through...
...half ounces on its journey-one-third of its normal weight. Pigeon-Man Ross believes pigeons can be released 200 mi. offshore, can be taught to carry small important articles. Last year two Fort Monmouth birds were released from the Leviathan, stupidly followed the ship to port, resting on deck whenever tired...
Dead Germans. That the people should thus behave was to be expected, but at the fortress in which President Washington Luis sat officers, too, lost their heads. They saw the Hamburg-South American liner Baden sail out of Rio bound for Buenos Aires, her decks teeming with Spanish emigrants. To stop her they fired three blank signal shots. The Baden steamed on. The fourth shot was a shrapnel shell. Bursting on deck it killed 23 Spanish emigrants, four German sailors, wounded forty others...
...eyes open last summer when he was the civilian guest of the Naval Science Department on its cruise to the Azores, he would not have permitted the sentence "The summer cruise would afford adequate opportunity for marching" to have appeared in yesterday's editorial. The shape of the deck and the rolling of the sea certainly prevent any polished drilling on board the Wyoming...
Shamrock's sail was down. Partly over the deck it lay, and partly in the sea. Some of the crew had been caught under it; some were on their feet, pulling at it. The sloop was coming up into the wind. The trouble was clear now: Shamrock's main halyard had snapped. "What a pity," said Sir Thomas Lipton as though to himself. He called his secretary, Major Westwood. "I wonder if anyone is overboard or hurt," he said. "See what you can get on the radio...