Word: rudder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...larger motors was V-drive construction, with motors mounted at the extreme stern to make more cabin or cockpit room. Interesting to many were three silent electric boats for anglers, 15-to-18 ft. long. Speed: 5-9 m. p. h. Price: $175-$750. One has a bow-rudder...
Legend: Aboard the Hussar was $4,000,000 in gold destined for British troops. (A U. S. correspondent, searching through admiralty and treasury files in London, found no record of lost gold. Yet an historian of Manhattan Island-Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes-reports that the Hussar's rudder was recovered in 1811, that attempts to recover the treasure were made in 1818 and 1824, that some gold was actually brought up in 1856 by Worcester Hussar...
...pleased to do so. When Endeavour arrives at Bristol this week, the Herreshoff workers will doubtless be as much surprised by her as they were by her owner. Endeavour, hydrangea blue above water, bronze below, is made entirely of steel except for a silver-spruce boom and a mahogany rudder. On a panel ahead of her helmsman, is a full set of airplane navigating
...week's fleet in their blue water race failed to encounter a mysterious school of whales reported by a fishing captain off the New Jersey coast, reported no fatalities. Most serious accident was one which befell Mason B. Rumney on the Baccarat. When a large wave hit the rudder, he was tossed into the cockpit by the tiller, broke two ribs. The Vamarie arrived with her radio set out of order, her navigating instruments broken by high seas. Slowest boats in last week's race were Robert P. Baruch's Zingara and Dainty, owned by a Bermuda...
...Endeavor, in which he and Mrs. Sopwith expect to cross the Atlantic this month, beat her trial horse, W. L Stephenson's Velsheda, twice. Unlike the Shamrocks which were all green, Endeavor is a pale hydrangea blue. She is built entirely of steel except for a mahogany rudder, silver-spruce boom and pine decks...