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...city clerk. At a second glance, he looks like a gnome. . . ." He was born in London's East End, among the docks; was a sailor, newspaper correspondent, war correspondent, literary editor of the London Nation and Athenaeum. Other books: The Sea and the Jungle, Old Junk, Under the Red Ensign, Gallions Reach...
...have resulted in such deals as the purchase of the White Star Line (from Morgan interests in 1926), the Elder Demster Line (West Africa), the Union Castle Line (South Africa)*. Other K orders have resulted in fast steamers, improved service, mechanical-innovation. Today the Royal Mail's red ensign flies over a fleet of some 2,600,000 tons ?one-sixth of the British merchant marine, the greatest fleet in the world...
...dark night 26 miles off New York and the 63 ton motorship Shawnee, bound from Bermuda to Halifax in ballast, plowed through the seas. The Canadian ensign flew at her masthead; all lights were showing. Suddenly out of the darkness streaked a little U. S. Coast Guard boat. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang -deafeningly five 4-lb. shells were fired, the last from within ten yards of the Shawnee's rail. One shell entered the port side astern, grazed the exhaust pipe and passed out to starboard just above the water line. If the exhaust pipe had been...
...Ensign Clarence E. Coffin Jr., U. S. N., went the congratulatory letter from President Hoover, the Crescent Cup, the Army Ordnance Trophy (a .30-calibre rifle), the National Rifle Association medal. He had scored...
...night, were only 27 and 32 miles from Pittsburgh. One other balloon came down in Pennsylvania. Seven others descended across the broad expanse of upper New York. After 36 hours, all but two had been heard from: Navy No. 1, piloted by Lieut. Thomas G. W. Settle and Ensign Wilfred Bushnell; and Detroit Times, piloted by Arthur G. Schlosser and E. J. Hill. Far beyond the marks of any of the others, Navy 1 came to earth, nearly 43 hours after starting, at Canavoy, Prince Edward Island. More hours passed, with the Detroit Times no man on earth knew where...