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...matter of fact, the title is a little bit misleading. Victor McLaglen, who, in his ususal manner cuts an impressive figure as Spike Madden, the chief mate of a merchantman, does not, exactly speaking, have a girl in every port. But at least he makes strenuous efforts--with the aid of his little address book--to find one at every place his ship drops anchor. Obviously, this quest, made fruitless by the activities of another sailor who precedes him by a day or so in each port of call, does not make for unity of plot. In fact the picture...
...after it was learned that all one needed was a heavy blanket of fog and a strong oarsman, the spotlight of publicity for not doing things has shifted to aviation. "Our Ruth", as we never call her, proved that all one needed was to come down beside a big merchantman, be picked up in the orthodox way, taken to port, and live thereafter in a Paradise of dotted lines...
Admiral Lin of the "independent" Chinese Navy bowed to U. S. Consul General Cunningham at Shanghai and said he was sorry that the Chinese gunboat Haichow had fired upon an American merchantman last December. Captain Hsu of the Haichow also apologized...
...stocky man, and a bluff man, William McFee, with a seaman's sense of humor and a book-lover's wisdom. He does not bemoan the vanished days of sailing vessels. His romances are those of the swift modern ships, of merchantman and transport. As an essayist and critic he is almost as well known as for his novels. His opinions of books are often violent; but usually well founded...
...Success" is said to be the only remaining ship of the old British felon fleet. She was built in 1790 at Moulmein, British India, and was originally used as an armed East India merchantman. Her tonnage is 1100, and she is 135 feet long with 30 foot beam. She is built throughout of solid Burmese teakwood. In 1802 the "Success" was chartered by the British government to transport to Australia the overflow from the home jails. There she became a floating prison to which men were sentenced for terms varying from seven years to life, often for what...