Word: hesperus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Special trains ran from Boston. An excursion steamer went out from Yarmouth. The automobiles of country people moved in slow procession along Hesperus Avenue* and Bass Rocks Road. Canadians were betting even money on Bluenose although it looked as though Captain Pine had the best crew. Aboard the Thebaud were Captains Powers, Johnson, Mallock, Sparrow, Prior and Domin-gos-masters all. On a day of white piling seas the two boats put out around the 37-mi. course. Though a 14-knot breeze was blowing, Captain Walters of Bluenose scoffed the idea that the weather was rough. Rough for amateur...
...Named after the schooner in Longfellow's "Wreck of the Hesperus." At the mouth of Gloucester harbor is ''the reef of Norman...