Word: helmsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guinea, last September, U.S. invading forces ran into heavy fire, pressed on. Near the beach, the helmsman of LST 473 spotted a torpedo coming head on. Before he could make a move, a bomb struck the pilothouse and blasted him out of action...
Argentina's ship of state, sailing its wayward course of "prudent neutrality" with President Ramón Castillo at the helm, ran smack into an unexpected obstacle last week. The shock came from a direction whence it was least expected-Britain. It left crew and helmsman surprised and angry. When he had weathered it, Captain Castillo was a grimmer and a wiser...
...battered nose out into the grey wilderness of wintry Atlantic. Green water pounded the corvette's narrow decks, doused her open bridge where the hooded skipper stood squinting into the mist. Now and then he gave a quiet command for relay to engine room, signalmen and the helmsman below. The Angry was heading back to sea, guarding another convoy of rusty freighters, laden with men and supplies for distant battlefronts...
...Right rudder 20°," ordered the captain for relay to the helmsman. Over a speaking tube came the Iowa-sharp voice of John ("Shanghai") Frajman, Machinist's Mate 2nd Class: "Engines making one-oh-two revolutions...
When holds were full, the great 125-ft. schooners would race back to market in Provincetown-first in, highest prices. "They left their fishing grounds with a 'keep 'er full and drive 'er.' They kept on canvas until the water came around the helmsman's neck. They tied their halyards aloft so they couldn't shorten sail. A coastwise steamer came to anchor in Provincetown Harbor, reporting, 'Had a fishing boat pass me sailing under water...