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...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...
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...
...through the New England manufacturing towns that lie between Boston and New Bedford, and the harbor looked cold and grey to him as he crossed over the bridge to Fairhaven and pulled through winding slum streets to the yacht yard. The yard looked mournful, too: several fishermen from Nantucket, old home of the whalers, were tied up at the quay making repairs before going out onto winter waters, while many a boat that he knew under clouds of white canvas he hardly recognized as they lay all bare of rigging, nestled together in cradles under a tin shed...
...subsidiary of the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R., the Fall River Line had been losing money ever since 1931. The Providence Line and the New Bedford Line were abandoned earlier this year. The railroad was continuing only its Fall River and New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket Lines, and had planned to let Fall River give up the ghost after this summer. When the National Maritime Union, C. I. O. affiliate, started a series of crippling strikes, the company replied with an order to halt operations. Technically the order was one of "temporary suspension" but General Manager...