Word: nantucketers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meantime another freighter, the British Coulmore, became another ship-of-the-week. During heavy weather at night, 500 miles east of Nantucket, she radioed she had been attacked by a submarine, wanted rescuing. To the spot rushed U. S. Coast Guard cutters and destroyers and the U. S. press got excited because Coulmore's message placed her near the zone where the Panama Conference and President Roosevelt had forbidden belligerents to operate...
...suit was bought in 1936. Then he amazed the correspondents. He announced, as a matter of public information, that two foreign submarines had been sighted in U. S. waters. One was off the boundary point of Alaska and Canada, the other somewhere off Boston, midway between Nova Scotia and Nantucket...
...neutral U. S. waters, refuel at U. S. ports, go peacefully home. Germany's famed Deutschland in World War I twice dodged the British and crossed to the U. S. Its U-53 put up at Newport, R. I. just before it sank six foreign merchantmen off Nantucket...
Back in the 80's a three-masted schooner bound for Boston with a cargo of molasses, coca, and pickled limes struck the south shore of Nantucket, driven by snow squalls and heavy seas. The ship wallowed helplessly in the breakers, and like a consuming disease the surf began pounding the vessel to pieces. Hearing of the disaster, hundreds of citizens hastened to the sands to render aid. But good intentions meant nought, for before their frosted eyes a cold drama was approaching its climax. The crew, clinging to the rigging--which were giant, slim icicles, slowly were freezing...
...Nantucket sailor taught the Vagabond more of serious sailing...