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...sailing at her best angle, with booms well inboard. Bluenose was still ahead at the third mark, but here Capt. Charley Johnson, sailing Thebaud because Capt. Ben Pine was sick, showed seamanship that baffled Capt. Angus Walters on Bluenose. With a windward tack ahead, Capt. Walters did what any sailor might do-he close-hauled to port. Thebaud came up astern and after trimming sheets stood off to westward...
...time I wrote a vitriolic article for a local paper condemning the brutality of men in general and of that captain in particular. As that ship proceeded on its way it met another vessel and learned that Andree had taken carrier pigeons with him, so a sailor was sent back in a small boat and he took the dead bird from the water and on its tiny body was found the only word ever received from the intrepid explorer and his brave companions. For over 30 years that article of mine remained unnoticed in an old scrap book...
...summer people." Edna Pelter is the pretty but declassee daughterof Long Harry, lobsterman and owner of a shack that summer visitors view as an eyesore and a disgrace. Visitors and villagers alike look down on the Pelters: the feeling is reciprocal. But the old Captain Embury, retired sailor, No. 1 citizen of Mirthful Haven, who could always make his voice heard above "the roarin' of the tem-pest," likes the Pelters, likes especially to watch young Edna as she comes out of school across the way. Neither Edna nor her father are particularly reputable, are thought to be light...
...Tampa, Fla., Kimoto Toono, Japanese sailor, went ashore from his ship to spear small fish. So as not to lose his gig (spear), he fastened the end of the rope around his body. Then he sighted a 340-lb. jewfish, speared it, was pulled off the dock, out to sea, drowned. Next day searchers found Gigger Toono and his jewfish...
Each time a "lung"-equipped sailor left the escape compartment, water entered. Apparatus designed to expel such water temporarily failed. When the Lieutenant and newsreel men alone were left, the water was up to their waists. Suddenly the ship lurched, spread the water over storage batteries connected to the soundrecorder, generating deadly chlorine gas. The newsreel men choked, grew terrified...