Word: schooner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon there hove into sight the schooner yacht Elena, to be pronounced winner of the cup offered by King Alfonso for Class A boats. The small boats left New York June 30, followed eight days later by the Class A entries. Elihu Root Jr., and Paul Hammond were in command of the Nina; Owner William B. Bell of Manhattan commanded the Elena...
...rakish clothes that nobody had ever seen before. Men said she was fast; but she was no girl for rough weather. They sent her out to sea as a noble experiment. A week passed and they didn't hear from her whose name was Rofa, 50-foot schooner, smallest of four small schooners racing from Sandy Hook to Santander, Spain. Her rigging was peculiar-designed by Herreshoff, who learned about sails in Scandinavian fjords. On the morning of the seventh day out, she had covered 800 miles and was making splendid headway, with her mainsail, foresail, forestay sail...
...Guinevere was the disappointed Duke of Santa Mauro, who had been unable to get the Santa Maria, a Spanish schooner,* ready for the race. His companion, Enrique Careaga, went with the Azara...
...black-painted sailing schooner Atlantis is now on the high seas headed toward this buried land. At the helm is Columbus O'Donnell Iselin 2nd, 24-year-old oceanographer, Harvard graduate and romanticist, son of the late Lewis Iselin. Last year, in his 76-foot fishing schooner The Chance, he dredged, collected specimens along the Labrador coast, as he had previously done along the Gulf Stream, Bermudas, Atlantic Coast...
...popularity is due to his sea-roving expeditions through the allied blockades during the war when he camouflaged an armed vessel as a Norwegian fishing schooner with the Count, himself, taking the part of the captain. Thus disguised the ship was able to proceed through enemy zones and sink hostile ships. He boasts to have sent 25 allied ships to the bottom without killing or injuring a man, a fact to which the many medals he has been awarded bear testimony. His adventures before the war when he ran away from home and worked his way around the world...