Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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GEORGE M. STRATTON Port Huron, Mich...
Badly in need of food and water, the Girl Pat had called at Devil's Island, sailed out again without papers. Few days later, again out of supplies, the little tub appeared at Georgetown, anchored four miles off the beach. Primed to nab the outlawed craft, port authorities sent U. S. Pilot Art Williams, in Guiana after an air search for Paul Redfern, to fly over her. When Williams reported she was indeed the Girl Pat, a police launch set out to arrest her. As it drew alongside, the Girl Pat's doughty crew of four appeared...
Georg John Lober, onetime vice president of the National Sculpture Society, was preparing to unveil his privately commissioned William Cook Memorial at Port Chester...
...food and fuel. The Lorraine Cross's captain observed that the ship's name had been painted out. He asked to see her papers. At once the four men yanked down their distress signal, hoisted sail, made off toward the South American coast. There every ship and port at once set eager watch for her, for the Lorraine Cross radioed that the shy Margaret Harold was really the motor trawler Girl Pat which ran away from Great Grimsby on the Humber, England, on All Fools' Day, was outlawed by Lloyd's and was last seen...
...wild escapade were last week laid by Harry Stone, her onetime mate, who was left behind in the Dakar Hospital. Said he: "When we left Grimsby, it was to fish. But Skipper Osborne had plans of his own. He was going to sell the boat in some foreign port and divide the proceeds with the crew. . . . We had no charts-only a child's atlas we'd bought at Woolworth's. . . . I was ill. In Dakar . . . they had to leave me behind. I can't say I'm sorry...