Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sail forth-steer for the deep waters only...
...walked, along the harbor looking toward the sea," the girl continued, "the Cháteau d'If, barely visible in the shimmering distance, made you think of the adventures of the Count of Monte Cristo. You could take a little boat and sail out toward the Cháteau. And you would go under the great bridge which opened and shut with a clanging roar as if to snap up the boats which passed below. Near by were the big ships, for there the water is deepest. Behind lay the little fishing boats with their many-colored sails being...
...Argentine yachtsman, Vito Dumas, sailed his 30-ft. yacht into the harbor at Wellington, New Zealand, last week after a lone voyage of 13,000 miles from the Rio de la Plata. Time: 159 days. His first question was: "Has Argentina declared war yet?" Told that Argentina was still anchored in neutral waters, lone Yachtsman Dumas made ready to sail on across the South Pacific to Chile...
...pain of his broken ribs. The drinking water had salt in it. Food supplies ran short. Cigarets were soaked, so the crew smoked dried tea leaves and fresh coffee rolled in pages torn from the Bluejacket's Manual. The auxiliary engine was useless. It was impossible to sail her. Day after day, a chip in a maelstrom, the 3070 tossed on the heaving Atlantic, battered by soft. waves, driven by the whims of one storm after another...
...boat pulled away with a score of survivors and set sail in the general direction of South America. Within a few days men with wounds got gangrene. Several died. Squalls nearly swamped the rest, but the rain was welcome. On the 26th day they saw a moth and two butterflies. Five days later 15 haggard men stumbled ashore, the only known survivors of the anonymous U.S. merchantman which had destroyed one of Grand Admiral Erich Raeder's deadly raiders...