Word: sails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Juniors of all four universities will be quartered in a group of four destroyers, the Tillman, Evans, Philip, and Fairfax. All Harvard Juniors will be on the U. S. S. Tillman, which will leave Boston on June 20 and return on July 3. The other destroyers will sail from New Haven and Hampton Roads, Virginia, a few days later...
...other students from Yale and Harvard who are taking the cruise will sail from Boston August 27 on the battleship Arkausas. The students from Georgia Tech and Northwestern will sail two days later from Hampton Roads on the same boat. The ship will then travel to West Indian waters and after a stay of four days in some port will return to Boston on September...
Hour's Sail. As specified by the 1924 British-American extraterritorial seizure convention, a rumrunner may also be boarded within one hour's sail of the coast by the boats concerned. Well aware of the potential technicalities of the Josephine K. case, the board of inquiry had the captured ship ballasted with scrap iron, staged a race with the CG-145. The Josephine K. made 9.55 knots, the patrol boat 11.15. Again the evidence was favorable to the Coast Guard. Sea lawyers also remembered the "hot pursuit" clause in the 1924 agreement, but whether a hot pursuit...
Lieutenant Commander N. G. Ricketts, of the United States Coast Guard service, filmed an extremely interesting and instructive picture on the subject of the international ice patrol. The patrol, which was established as a result of the celebrated Titanic disaster, is commissioned to sail up and down the shipping lanes of the North Atlantic, charting the location and drift of icebergs. Every spring about three or four hundred of these huge birds come drifting southward from the glaciers of Greenland. It is the duty of the international ice patrol to keep watch and give each vessel passing through...
Major James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney of the Connecticut Naval Militia obtained a three-year leave of absence and prepared to sail for Syria, where he will join a scientific tractor-caravan expedition being organized by Vice President Georges Marie Haardt of Citroen Corp. to follow the route of Marco Polo across Syria, Irak, Persia, Afghanistan, Tibet, China. Mrs. Polly Lauder Tunney planned to go as far as Beirut. Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross of Connecticut who lately majored Tunney for his staff, expressed regret...