Word: sailings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Ann Davison and .her husband Frank set out from England to sail around the world in 1949, their high adventure ended in sudden tragedy. A howling English Channel gale sent their old, 70-ft. ketch Reliance crashing on to the rocks off Portland Bill, and Davison was drowned. Ann told the story of that ill-fated trip in a bestselling book, Last Voyage (TIME, March 24, 1952), and resolved to sail alone on the first lap of the adventure she and her husband had planned together...
With 794 passengers and the blessing of Genoa's Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, the 30,000-ton Andrea Doria* put out from Genoa on her maiden Atlantic crossing. Newest of the Italian Lines' luxury liners, she was also the first new Italian liner to sail for New York since the start of World War II. For most of the 4,737-mile voyage, the 697-ft. Doria had smooth sailing at an average 22.97 knots...
...traveling course will be a study of Romanesque monasteries and cathedrals in France, conducted by Kenneth J. Conant, professor of Architecture. Students will sail from, New York June 24 and return August 6. Four weeks will be spent touring 50 of the more important monasteries, abbeys and cathedrals is by private...
Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea. After eight days at sea, Bombard turned up at Casablanca, 200 miles south of Tangier on the African coast. From Casablanca he sailed to the Canaries. Leaving L'Heretique at Las Palmas, he flew to Paris to see his wife and their newborn daughter. At last, in October, he hoisted his small, triangular sail, set out again from Las Palmas on the long voyage across the Atlantic...
...deep troughs of depression as he looked out at the ever-empty horizon. Fortunately, there were daily chores to be done: fishing, keeping the log, plotting his position, measuring and recording his blood pressure and corpuscle counts. Fish were plentiful, especially flying fish, which obligingly got caught in the sail and flopped on to the deck during the night. Bombard tried to pass the time by listening to the radio, gazing at photographs of his wife and chil dren, studying plankton under a microscope, taking notes on marine life, composing music (two concertos and half a symphony, he later reported...