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...GIRL BEFORE THE MAST - Betty Jacobsen - Scribner ($2). A Brooklyn stenographer tells of her trip on the Parma, winner of last year's grain race from Australia to England. No Cradle of the Deep, no Falmouth for Orders, either...
...Australia after the 1929 grain race, he was sailing the barque Herzogin Cecilie when she rolled over on her beam ends. He managed to right her and sail on. In the 1932 race he sailed the Parma through Horn hurricanes, South Atlantic ice and North Atlantic calm into Falmouth Bay in the winning time of 103 days, beating 19 other skippers, nine of whom he had trained himself. About that voyage Alan Villiers wrote a book: Grain Race (currently published in the U. S. by Scribner...
...race five times and the 16-year-old Priwall, racing for the first time. He made Cape Horn in a fast 30 days. On the leg north he did not know that the Pamir had reached Land's End in the excellent time of 92 days. Into Falmouth Harbor last week staggered the Penang which had left Australia in late January. Its time was 122 days. Close behind it came the Parma, having finished the 15,000 mi. in the amazing time of 83 days, fair time even for a clipper. Said Villiers, "We had a good ship...
...Hude Park, David U, Sullivan of Cambridge, Edward D. Sulivan of Dorchester, James J. Sullivan of Dorchester, Leo E. Sweeney, Jr.. of Charlestown, Henry W. Syer of Sommerville, Paul C. Tiffany of Cambridge, Elwyn E. Tilden, Jr. of Holbrook, Frederick B. Tolles of Newtonville, Minot W. Tripp of Falmouth, Alexander A. Valois, Jr. of Cambridge, Herbert H. Walley, Jr. of West Newton, Herbert S. Wallis of Cambridge, Herbert H. Walley, Jr. of West Newton, Herbert S. Wallis of Cambridge, Francis J. Walsh of Cambridge, Earle H. Webster of Bridgewater, Harold P. White of Winchendon, Hayward P. White of Egypt...
Owner of a fishery near Falmouth in Cornwall, Edward of Wales is a rival of Colchester. Loyally downing a dozen Colchester "natives," he spoke...