Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boothbay Harbor...
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...
...Italian Line's Conte di Savoia, each of which had two legs on the cup, and the French Line's Normandie, which had none. While tenders and excursion boats followed in their wake and thousands of spectators watched from the shore what has become the harbor's native sporting event, the Conte di Savoia's long-keeled boat paced the W. C. Teagle's two nautical miles over the grey harbor swell, came in in 22 min. 2 sec. As coxswain, the Conte di Savoia's First Officer Pietro Passano joyously received the kisses...
...George Huntington Hartford's square-rigged sailing vessel Joseph Conrad with Alexis Troonin at the wheel; its Newport-to-Bermuda race with William S. Gubelmann's square-rigger Seven Seas; by arriving in Hamilton harbor 55 sec. ahead after racing 10 days, 1 hour, 57 sec. The Seven Seas challenged on the ground that the Joseph Conrad crossed the finish line under drive of an auxiliary engine, later withdrew its protest...
...westbound voyage to the Orient. Of the 31 souls aboard, five were passengers, among them Charles Lascelles and Madam Anna Bishop, English concert singers of the day. By midwinter Captain Tobias was beating his way around Cape Horn. In January 1866 his anchor dropped in Honolulu's Pearl Harbor. The following months, refurbished and provisioned, the Libelle splashed out of Honolulu with the evening tide, sailed westward into the flaming Hawaiian sunset on the last lap of her 19,000-mile journey to Hong Kong. She was never seen again...