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...sinking of the Nantucket Lightship yesterday afternoon provokes many, upon hasty judgment, into scathing condemnation of steamship companies, captains, and speedy runs, but a careful study of the facts already known and those that will be brought out in the Lighthouse Service Investigation will show the weakness of snap judgments. Granted that the "Olympic" was in the wrong according to decisions of Admiralty Courts which hold that in case a ship is unable to stop in time to prevent a collision she is going too fast for the conditions, yet in this unique instance there are many extenuating circumstances...
Thomas Blair Husband, of Nantucket...
...divorce. Of aviation he wrote as a layman to laymen, amateurishly twanging the Hearst harp for larger U. S. air defenses. ¶Swallowed up in last week's hurricane was the sloop Postscript manned by three young Manhattan neighbors of President Roosevelt. Out of Manasquan, N. J. for Nantucket had sailed Pierre Irving, 21, great-grandnephew of Washington Irving, and the Niles Brothers, John, 23. and Charles, 16. sons of Dr. Walter Niles who lives around the corner from the President on East 64th Street. The seagoing President ordered the Coast Guard specially mobilized to search for these neighbors...
...From Nantucket around Cape Cod, across Massachusetts Bay to Norman's Woe ("It was the schooner Hesperus") and Gloucester, behind Cape Ann, through Casco Bay and up the jagged coast of Maine toward Eastport, Franklin Roosevelt last week piloted his 45-ft. Amberjack II on the sportiest, saltiest vacation the country had ever watched its President take. He dressed in old flannel trousers and a grey sweater under oil skins. He did not bother too much about shaving. Sun and spray tanned his face, widened his grin. He smacked over codfish balls, baked beans, brown bread. And even...
Arrested off Nantucket by the U. S. Coast Guard as a rum-smuggler was Skipper Louie Doucette, famed for his World War feat of rowing 230 miles in an open boat after his vessel had been sunk by a German submarine...