Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more appropriate organization could be named as the one to erect a memorial to Joseph Conrad than the Seaman's Institute. And in choosing a Library--to be built in New York--as the most fitting monument to the late writer the Institute has exercised good judgment, for thus will be united the two strongest influences in Conrad's life literature and the sea. The announcement of the members of the honorary committee elected to act with the Board of Managers is sufficient proof that the library will be proportionate to the genius of the man whose name it bears...
...aboard the collier Anthony O. Boyle of Quincy, Mass., one Martin Ward crawled into his forecastle bunk and fell asleep. From the bunk above Seaman Ward's issued the stertorous breathing of a 250-lb. shipmate, also slumbering. Waves lapped and buffeted the collier's hull. Timbers creaked. Into the monotonous orchestration of the forecastle's night sounds crept a small cracking note, a rip, a split, a smothered crash. Ward awoke, in intense pain. His brain flashed: "Shipwreck! Drowning:!" Then a terrible weight lifted as the 250-pound shipmate removed his person and his bunk from...
...That talkative, bald-headed seaman," wily Ulysses, is supposed to have done battle in Sicily with Polyphemus, member of the gigantic tribe of Cyclopes, who had but one eye, in the centre of their foreheads, and were believed by the Greeks to forge iron for Vulcan. The historical originals of this tribe were probably Pelasgians, who worked in underground quarries, wearing lanterns or flares on their beads...
...dead, and as they fumbled through the rusty, sea-fouled compartments, scenes of the death struggles were revealed. Men had stuck to their posts. Inside the gash where the Rome had bitten, pinned between the bent steel plates and the engineroom bulkhead, was the body of a seaman. One arm was stretched out in an effort to grasp the lever which would have closed an emergency valve and perhaps have saved the lives of some of his fellows...
...walking beside one of the numerous waterways which have caused Stockholm to be referred to as "The Venice of the North." The Prince's aide, who was supposed to be accompanying him, rushed up just in time to help Prince Gustaf carry the unconscious sailor into a rough seaman's cafe nearby. There an incident occurred which stirred many a Swede as much as the rescue itself...