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...rest of the crew was made up of Sons Franklin Jr. and John, five young friends. In the IPs foamy wake followed a strangely assorted flotilla: the destroyers Ellis and Bernadou: official guardians of the President's safety; the Coast Guard cutter Cuyahoga carrying secret service men; the ketch Mary Alice and the powerboat Comanche, loaded to the gunwales with newshawks; the black Gloucesterman Old Glory swarming with news photographers who were never allowed to get within camerashot...
...Plant & Structures. His friend Abraham Rosenberg works for Manhattan Terazzo Brass Co. They go sailing at the Bronxonia Yacht Club, at Throg's Neck, N. Y. Last winter Nat Blum and Abraham Rosenberg wondered why they should not borrow their friend David Rosenstein's 49-foot ketch, the Curlew, and enter the annual race of the Cruising Club of America and the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, from Montauk Point, L. I., to Hamilton. Cruising Club officials, examining the. boats for seaworthiness, paid special attention to the Curlew but finally decided it would pass. Last fortnight, along with...
...drowned when the largest boat in the race, James H. Ottley's schooner Adriana, caught fire and sank 80 miles off Montauk. Four days after the race's end, the U. S. Coast Guard began hunting for the missing Bermuda fisherman Spanish Rose and the ketch Curlew, manned by six Brooklynites...
Schevill writes: "We waited about twelve hours aboard the ketch Era, whose name well reflects the leisurely ways of her personnel, while the fishermen sobered up and got ready for sea, and finally landed here after a ten hour trip spread over a day and a half.--We hope they come back for us before we have to take to distilling sea water.--Dr. Allen and I have enjoyed ourselves muchly--this seems rather like breaking the hotel hoodoo--and I think we're getting a pretty fair collection, at least of the land Vertebrates. . . We have managed enough...
Iselin, who is to be master of the ketch on its cruises, declared yesterday that the craft would be completed by June 1 and would sail about July 1 on its maiden voyage. A graduate and a student of Harvard will have charge of a part of the scientific work on the two months voyage. G. L. Clarke '27 will direct all of the biological investigation. The necessary chemical analyses of samples and physical observations will be done by R. B. Montgomery...