Word: schooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of their recording was done on a big expedition (backed by NBC, the Carnegie Corporation, the American Museum of Natural History, etc.) which ended a year ago when their 137-ft-schooner foundered on an uncharted Australian reef. The records and the Fahnestocks were about all that was saved...
...pitched on a rocky shore, the King's justice last week came to the remote Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay. At a table covered with the Union Jack sat Justice C. P. Plaxton from Toronto. Before him was a. scratch jury of miners, newspapermen, the crew of the schooner which had sailed 13 days to bring the court to the islands. From the half-tanned sealskins of the Eskimo defendants, witnesses and attentive spectators rose a sour, oily stink...
...Belcher Islanders the trial was a sort of game. The defendants greeted the judicial party when the schooner anchored, shook hands all around and helped set up the tent. And because the Eskimos love the comfort of the white men's jails, the verdicts were satisfactory. The two Messiahs, Sala and Ouyerack, were convicted of manslaughter, sentenced to two years apiece. One disciple was sentenced to a year's hard labor, three others were released. With the prisoners when the schooner sailed back to Moose Factory was Mina. The jury had decided that she was insane...
Except for 90-year-old America, matriarch of U.S. racing yachts, no U.S. racing boat is more beloved by U.S. yachtsmen than the three-masted schooner Atlantic. On any yacht-club veranda, mention of her name unwinds a reel of yarns...
...master of the schooner Chiva Captain Hayden traded through the West Indies. He took the 96-ft. brigantine Florence C. Robinson out to Tahiti. Two years ago, with a partner, he bought the schooner Aldebaran, built for Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (as the yacht Meteor III) before World War I. Hayden's idea was to start a passenger service between Hawaii and Tahiti. On his way to Boston to outfit her, Aldebaran ran into a gale off Cape Hatteras, crept into Charleston, S. C. a virtual wreck...