Word: schooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Showdown's lusty action begins in a Chinese hotel in Rabaul, where "the white female form is an extremely rare sight. . . even when clothed." So when Schooner Captain Shamus got his first eyeful of gorgeous Cleo, it was as if "an exotic and beautiful wild creature [was] trampling the quiet loveliness of a well-tended flower garden." Shamus was even more trampled when he discovered that Cleo was one of the Hollywood party which he had agreed to ship to New Guinea in search of background material for a new film...
...sure don't be de dype to seddle down in a hole like dis," said the Norwegian skipper gloomily as he watched pert, young Santa Fe Schoolteacher Helen Wheaton get ready to clamber over the side of his dinky schooner in Atka Harbor. As she said goodbye to the skipper and boarded the bobbing dory in which her bridegroom waited with open arms, Helen was thinking much the same thing...
...only subscriber on Raiatea, a high green island just 120 miles 'northwest of Tahiti, and ever since Pearl Harbor he has been getting anywhere from 12 to 16 issues of our Overseas Edition the same day-by steamer from San Francisco to Tahiti, by little inter-island schooner from Tahiti to Raiatea. And when the mail comes...
Larsen joined the R.C.M.P., not to be a policeman but to become an Arctic mariner for the force. His ship, the St. Roch, was specially built for Arctic voyaging. A diesel-powered schooner, she was built of timbers two-thirds heavier than those used in any ordinary craft. Her hull is sheathed in Australian ironbark-the only wood that can stand the grinding pressure of the pack...
...four voyages of discovery. In his relentless search for new material on the Admiral's voyages, Morison cruised the Caribbean by yawl (1936-1937): traced Columbus travels along the coast of Santo Domingo (1939); crossed the Atlantic from Palos, Portugal (1939) in an expedition consisting of a 147-foot schooner and a 47-foot ketch; and combed the coast of Cuba and the Bahamas (1940) in the ketch. The actual writing of "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" began at sea, off the Azores in 1939, and was published in 1941. Called "Columbus Junior" by his friend, Franklin Roosevelt, Morison...