Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some foreign creditors of Germany who can get their money in no other way are now taking payment in ships which they can sail away from the Fatherland...
...rehire a 25-year-old seaman named Charles Brenner. On the voyage from Honolulu Brenner headed a group of sailors who complained that Captain George Yardley had violated sea safety laws by putting out with hatches open, booms hanging overside, four lifeboats dismantled. When the ship was ready to sail from San Francisco for the Orient, 50 members of her deck-crew refused to sign on unless Seaman Brenner were hired also. The Line refused. After six days' delay and $50,000 loss to the Line, the Department of Labor's pudgy Trouble-Shooter Edward Fitzgerald persuaded Secretary...
...Grub Ship," and would sail over to Oakland, Tiburon and Sausalito, which were unaffected by the earthquake, and bring in food and other supplies for my immediate family and many friends...
...night before I met Commodore MacFarlane, I set sail from what is now the San Francisco Yacht Harbor for Sausalito. In mid-channel the wind dropped and with a strong ebb: tide we drifted out through the Golden Gate. In those days, as many of the old-timers will remember, we had no auxiliary power, as sailors, men of the old school felt they could put their vessels into most any place they desired under their own sail by the old fashioned method known as "jayhawking." Drifting through the Gate a dense fog came in and I suggested...
This year promises to be Churchill's best by a small margin. Eight ships carrying freight alone, seven more also carrying passengers are scheduled to sail before the freeze-over about Sept. 30. Costing $70 per ticket, the voyage takes from 14 to 20 days, offers a view of a part of the world where few besides explorers have been. According to the booking agent, last week's six tourists-four from Vancouver, two from Regina-were merely "curiosity seekers...