Word: schooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salinas Airport, workmen anchored an iron hangar to four ten-ton ice trucks to keep it from blowing away. At a beach near San Francisco, waves slammed 100 feet beyond high water mark, knocked three houses off their underpinnings. Ten Coastguardsmen who set out to aid a damaged lumber schooner off Fort Bragg soon needed help themselves. They lashed their two small boats together, rode out 40-foot waves in rain and fog for 40 hours before they were rescued...
Twentysix, redheaded, pretty, weighing 90 lbs., she obviously could not ship before the mast. Besides, she wanted to sail as captain. She plucked $1,100 from the bank and headed for Baltimore. There the schooner Fannie Insley, dirty, spectral, gaunt, was tied to a city wharf. The Fannie Insley took her eye. She planked down $800 for her ("her bottom was sound"), spent the rest of her fortune fitting her out, by virtue of her ownership became Captain Grant, hired a couple of hands, cast off into the business of hauling freight up & down Chesapeake...
Color movies taken aboard the schooner "Aigrette" last summer on a cruise to Cuba will be shown by Sloan Wilson '42 in H-31 Eliot House tonight at 8 o'clock. Everyone interested is invited to attend...
...film includes pictures of fishing in the Gulf Stream, close-up views of a school of dolphin, and shots of a squall off the Cuban coast, Habana Harbor, a race with a Cuban schooner, and a gale off Cape Hatteras. It is designed to give some conception of life aboard a small sailing ship during an extended voyage...