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...Freshman oarsmen will row in the Leviathan for the rest of this week but will then be made up into crews. However, Coach Haines intends to keep these boats as nearly equal as possible and will not pick a first eight until the latter part of this month or the first of April. At that time a first, second and third Freshman boat will be chosen as well as two 150-pound first year eights. Because of the death of coxswains all first year men interested have been asked to report at Weld Boat House today at 2.30 o'clock...
German Boats. For delivery two years hence, North German Lloyd last week ordered two 46,000-ton boats built. They will enter the Bremen-Manhattan service and make their runs in six days, speed comparable to that of the Leviathan...
Capt. Hartley, S. S. Leviathan: "On the roughest passage of my ship's career, to Cherbourg last week, a white owl took refuge in a funnel on the ship, 1,000 miles from Newfoundland. I shall present it to the Bronx Zoo. The S. S. American Trader the same week picked up a white owl 600 miles at sea, and will adopt it as mascot. The coast of Maine has lately reported large numbers of white owls landing there, evidently driven by starvation from Arctic regions...
...Leviathan is 59,960 tons; the U. S. S. West Virginia 32,600 tons...
...carried on shipboard to the whaling grounds, launched overside and sent spinning over the ocean in far circles. High over the sea, air observers can "spot" a whale even though he lurk far below the surface; can flash his nautical bearings even to an invisible whaleship and keep leviathan in sight until the harpoons arrive...