Word: seamans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...State. Finally they arrive at the Greek island. Travers cannot persuade the engineers to give up their project, elects to have himself blown up with the temple. Meantime, Mrs. Travers and Mantell have gotten tired looking for Travers, have decided to concentrate their attention on each other. Bert the seaman, it turns out. was the only one who had an inkling of what his dreamy employer was groping for. "You think a man is not quite all there if he puzzles you," he tells the electrician just before the temple goes up. "He can't be right...
...know about. Her first summer attraction is, of course, salt water, and this means the harbor. Few people know that there is a chance to take part in the harbor life every Tuesday and Friday morning from the first of June through September, when the launch of the Seaman's Friend Society makes the rounds of the harbor ships and heaves packages of magazines and books aboard each. The launch leaves from a float under the Chariestown end of the Charlestown bridge--the big one that the elevated goes over--and two large signs identify it. There is room...
...private cruises there is a "water taxi" stand in back of the South Station and another at Charlestown, under the old Warren Bridge, which is north of the one the Seaman's Friend launch sails from. The Charlestown taxis are extremely inexpensive, in fact fifteen cents takes you a long way. You can just cruise, going way out to Brewster if the weather is good, or you can take along a lunch and be left to spend the day on Governor's Island or Peddockls, Governor's Island has the ruins of old Fort Winthrop, and is large and explorable...
Last week, having prettied up the trim Tabor-Boy, 18 Sea Scouts (none over 16 years) manned her for an eight-week cruise to the World's Fair. With Headmaster Lillard and Captain Lewis in command, the boys were assigned regular watches, holding all posts from able seaman up through bos'n and quartermaster to first mate. They sailed the Tabor-Boy down to New York, putt-putted up the Hudson to Albany where the 85-ft. masts were unstepped to clear the bridges along the canal to Buffalo and the Great Lakes. At ports of call along...
...trousers and a grey sweater under oil skins. He did not bother too much about shaving. Sun and spray tanned his face, widened his grin. He smacked over codfish balls, baked beans, brown bread. And even the crustiest old Down Easterners had to admit that he was a crackerjack seaman under full sail...