Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least 15 of the crew were killed by gunfire. Some 20 were taken prisoner. The rest, after making 450 miles in five days in a sail-equipped lifeboat, were picked up and taken to an African port. They were the first survivors to confirm the presence of an armed surface raider in the South Atlantic...
...active members, there being about 40 others who still belong from past years, use the boats and facilities of the Community Boat Club and sail in the Charles River Basin. Membership to the Boat Club being rather costly, the Harvard Yacht Club owns three tickets, which members must take with them when they want to sail...
...first mercy ship to carry food, medical supplies, cigarets and sweets to U.S. fighting men in Japanese prison camps is about to sail from San Francisco harbor, the neat Swedish freighter Kanangoora, fresh out of drydock with huge red crosses on her whitened sides. Into her hold will go $1,000,000 in supplies- and the love and prayers of thousands of wives, parents, sisters and sweethearts...
...they sailed, or prepared to sail last week to the most desperate war in U.S. history, hundreds of thousands of young soldiers were singing...
...market in Provincetown-first in, highest prices. "They left their fishing grounds with a 'keep 'er full and drive 'er.' They kept on canvas until the water came around the helmsman's neck. They tied their halyards aloft so they couldn't shorten sail. A coastwise steamer came to anchor in Provincetown Harbor, reporting, 'Had a fishing boat pass me sailing under water...