Word: newport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sultry grey days without sun and days when light airs rolled the sea into innumerable gay reflections of summer, the America's Cup yachts sailed their first official trials off Newport, R. I. On Vincent Astor's Nourmahal the skippers met and sat around a table while Commodore Astor drew four slips of paper out of a hat, each with the name of a yacht on it. It had been decided that yacht A would race B the first day, and C the second, D the third, with the order changing correspondingly for the other boats in each race. Three...
Employes at Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. were last week rushing work on a unique job for Central Maine Power Co. Out of the hull of the U. S. Shipping Board's old cargo vessel Jacona (7,000 tons) they were ripping marine engines, boilers, propeller shafts and replacing them with great General Electric turbogenerators and Westinghouse condensers. When their work of renovating the Jacona was done, they would turn over to Central Maine Power Co. not a new-fangled freighter but a floating power plant with which the company could supplement its electrical production in cases...
...Newport. Skipper Harold Stirling Vanderbilt won three more trial races with his America's cup yacht, Enterprise. Weetamoe beat her once but Enterprise made her default, protesting interference. Whirlwind went back to the shipyard to have her mast moved forward a bit, her underbody (hastily finished) scraped and repainted. Whirlwind was hopelessly beaten, Yankee still proved fast off the wind. So far Enterprise seems likeliest to meet Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V, though no trials have yet been sailed in a heavy wind. The formal elimination races come July 7 off Newport, the Cup races begin Sept...
...Flamingo Feather, Through Swamp and Glade, Campmates, Raftmates, Canoemates - 30 others) ; aide in exploration of routes for Santa Fe and Northern Pacific R. R.'s (1867-68) friend of Kit Carson and Buffalo Bill; first editor of Harper's Round Table (1879-82); founder (1880) at Newport, R. I., of the League of American Wheelmen; after a long-standing nervous ailment; at Orlando...
...August the "J" boats will race like this again and again. These trial races are useful for tuning up the rigging, getting the crews spry and smart, are important as indications of form, but meaningless so far as the America's Cup races are concerned. In August at Newport the elimination races will be held and one boat chosen to sail for the U. S. against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V. Each yacht costs about $200,000 to build, $150,000 to equip, $200,000 to run for a summer. Already Enterprise has five suits of sails...