Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...martial Mediterranean last week, strangely pacific ships were afloat. From fig-famed Smyrna on the Turkish coast, the British Llandovery Castle, brightly lighted, sailed for Egypt. In the same harbor the Italian Grandisca got up steam to sail for Italy. Into Gibraltar, unscathed, sailed the Italian Saturnia and Vulcania, sparkling with fresh white paint...
Besides regular meets, one day each week will be spent by the colleges in Greater Boston on the Charles Basin, where they will have Varsity and Freshman races to determine the spring champion. Last fall's championship was won by a Harvard dink sailor, after a hotly-contested sail-off with...
...other naked Negritos of the Andaman Islands did not yet know. The little blacks had just seen the British leave the Officers' Club and its lovely promenade on Ross Island in Port Blair's harbor, the weather station and the stores in Port Blair itself, and sail off to India across the Bay of Bengal...
...already drifted away. The others righted the boat and bailed it out, found that they had eleven cans of condensed milk, some hardtack and chocolate, a compass and a small dictionary with a map of the Western Hemisphere. In good spirits, they headed west, helped along by an improvised sail made out of a lifeboat cover. On the fourth or fifth day, they sighted a tanker, but the quartermaster, who was senior man in the boat, was afraid to release a flare for fear of attracting a sub. He blinked an S O S with a flashlight, but the tanker...
...freighter Blink, 23 men got into a power-driven lifeboat. Only six reached shore alive. The first night they dragged a sea anchor, hoping to stay within sight of other survivors. In the morning none was visible and they tried to start the engine. It balked. They raised a sail; a gust of wind upset the boat and they lost all food, all drinking water, the oars and one man. They righted the boat and got back...