Word: sailings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...razors, even the ship's bill of health-had been taken by the vanished pirates. Only a chart, with the Combinatie's position marked on it, had been left. Cornelius' overworked diesel engine was wheezing at the point of death. The captain ordered a jury sail rigged from deck canvas and pointed his bow back to Tangier...
Manhattan's art season was out of the doldrums and clipping along under full sail. From 57th Street to Greenwich Village last week, the galleries opened 40 new shows. Among the most interesting...
Plymouth Adventure (MGM) Historians are hazy as to exactly what happened aboard the Mayflower between the time it set sail from Plymouth, England on Sept. 16. 1620, and the time it landed 66 days later at Provincetown, Mass. MGM, attempting to fill in the historical gap, has drawn on what studio publicists call new, revealing research as well as on Ernest Gebler's imaginative 1950 novel and on some pure invention by Screenwriter Helen Deutsch. The resulting movie pictures the Atlantic crossing of the Pilgrim Fathers as a combination of storms above deck and stormy passions below deck...
...Miru was ready to leave Wellington. That day things looked decidely ominous. Steady, sleeting rain sleeked the ship's deck, and the barometer tumbled to record low; by morning it read 28.40 inches. Despite the black, raining sky, Davis decided to set sail, and without salute or fanfare, the Miru put to sea in the middle of the South Pacific's winter. Never before had anyone ever sailed in mid-winter from New Zealand to America along the 40th latitude--the "roaring forties." It was something that just wasn't done...
This done they set sail for Boston, via the Gulf Stream. But off Florida, a bitter north caster slammed into the Stream, making progress just about impossible. Davis headed westward to the Inland Waterway. The average depth of the waterway is eight feet; the Miru's draft is eight feet. These two factors caused 13 groundings on the way, one of which left the Miru high and dry until a new tide...