Word: schooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chin Up. Last week, when Shirley May finally took the plunge, she had missed the good weather. She also missed most of the newsmen. On their way over from England, they were far out in mid-Channel at take-off time aboard a picturesque but snail-slow two-masted schooner, christened the Black Magic by Shirley May's pressagent Ted Worner (and later rechristened the Black Maria by disgusted newsmen). The Associated Press had wisely hired its own steamer, the Red Commodore (complete with a restaurant and bar), as well as a speedboat and plane...
BOOTHBAY HARROR, Maine, June 9--Commander Donald B. MacMillan, veteran Arctic explorer, today announced two College students. Peter Rand '51 of St. Louis, Mo. and Stanton Cook '51 of Berkeley, Calif., would serve as first and second mate respectively, on the schooner "Bowdoin" in its forthcoming cruise to the Arctic...
...hours, they had lain, nearly suffocated, in the noisome hold of a 45-ft. schooner as it rolled and pitched on the voyage from Havana to Florida. But the U.S. border patrol had been tipped off from Cuba; an amphibious plane had spotted the ship and radioed a report to shore. They were seized as the schooner slipped into the little fishing village of Marathon, 100 miles south of Miami on the Florida Keys...
Sixty-nine refugees who feared that the Russian threat might reach into Sweden for them crowded into the Prolific, a blunt-nosed fishing schooner, about half as big as the Mayflower. They had sailed over 6,000 miles of ocean to reach a U.S. haven. They had weathered storms in the Bay of Biscay and off Cape Finisterre. They had traded their clothes for grapes and coconuts in Madeira and broken their steering gear in a hurricane off Bermuda. Under leaky hatches in fetid, 90° heat, their women had nursed children sick with chicken pox. After 60 days...
While serving with the Coast Guard Academy last year he skippered the schooner Terigram in the Burmuda races...