Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen Mary press a button that started the hull down the ways. At the same moment Her Majesty smashed a bottle of Australian Burgundy against No. 534 and cried: "I am happy to name this ship the Queen Mary, and wish good luck to her and all who sail...
...Norman II. Davis, American ambassador-at-large, and Admiral William H. Standley, chief of naval operations will sail for London on October 10 to engage in naval conversations with Great Britain and Japan, preliminary to next year's world naval conference, the White House announced tonight...
Around the harbor entrance and out into the great blue expanse which had so long been the home of the sailors, they went. Behind them in the distance, slipped the little, town of Palos from which they had so lately set their sails. To the front lay the Cape, beckoning them to newer worlds. Beyond still farther fell that mystic headland which sailors have come to revere as do Gata, and then, still farther, farther to the East, lay the still silent rock which kept the entrance to their maritime knowledge. Beyond,--beyond that rock few men had ventured...
...their very dress, proved themselves to be no native mariners, were making ready for the departure of the craft. Another weighted donkey drew up, discharged his cargo, departed. The group about the shore increased as word about the town had spread that the fleet was in readiness to sail...
Sixth Race. Before the start, Skipper Sopwith issued a statement indicating that he was by no means satisfied with the Race Committee's ruling on the first protest. Expressing "great disappointment" at the treatment he had received when the Committee failed to "take heed" of the "sailing tactics" of Skipper Vanderbilt, he intimated he would set sail from U. S. shores shortly after the series was over...