Word: hove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North German Lloyd liner Europe. hove-to with engines idling 600 mi. off -Cape Breton one morning last week. Passengers lined the rail, crowded about a roped enclosure on the sundeck to watch a sturdy monoplane mounted on a sort of sled and turntable between the two smokestacks. Pilot Joachim Blankenburg waved a signal from the cockpit, a seaman on deck threw a lever and the sled shot to the edge of the deck, flinging the seaplane out over the water at 80 m. p. h. The plane rose rapidly, circled the Euro pa in salute, vanished into the west...
...heeled over and nosed into a grey comber. Right before King George's eyes the wash swept Second Mate Ernest Friend overboard. Sailors threw him a lifebuoy immediately. The ship luffed and signalled for help. Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V heard the cry "Man Overboard" and hove to. But it was too late. Ernest Friend never reached the floating buoy, disappeared. He left behind a widow and four children. King George called off the day's racing and hurried back to the yellow-funneled Victoria & Albert from which Queen Mary had seen the tragedy...
...Atlantic two miles off Long Beach, N. J. where Chris Nelsen and Harry Hansen were emptying their lobster catch into their motor dory, two buck deer hove alongside. The astonished fishermen noosed the two animals, hauled them aboard, took them ashore. The game warden, who turned the bucks loose in their proper woods, guessed dogs had run them into the water...
...fugitives to stop. The warning was ignored. He then turned his searchlight on his laterally striped Coast Guard ensign and fired three shots across the fleeing power cruiser's bow. Still she paid no heed. The next shot pierced the vessel's pilot house. She hove to. Running alongside, Mate Schmidt found she was the Josephine K. out of Digby, Nova Scotia with 500 cases of liquor aboard. Unconscious in the cabin lay her captain, William P. Cluett, smashed by the Coast Guard shell, which had split the ship's wheel. Capt. Cluett was taken ashore where...
Last week the steamer Virginia Lee, carrying 1,000 businessmen on a goodwill tour, hove to 20 mi. at sea off Norfolk, Va. (where naval reviews are held). The businessmen fell silent and looked at three austere caskets on the edge of the deck. The Rev. P. Roland Wagner of Norfolk fumbled with a prayer book. Virginia's Governor John Garland Pollard, onetime William & Mary law professor, smiled his famed crooked smile, cleared his throat...