Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today the Vagabond hopes to set at rest all these questionings. He is going to Harvard 3 at 11 o'clock to hear Professor McIlwain on the background of the English Constitution. Of course all his reservations can not be answered, but Professor MeIlwain is, like Kipling's wrecked seaman a "man of infinite resource and sagacity," and he will do much to explain the beginnings and development...
Artiglio II seaman, "in some mud the divers sent up from the Egypt's galley- cursed smelly mud!" Other "finds" washed by nose-holding sailors from the pantry mud: ¶ Brass disk stamped "P. & O." (the Egypt was a Peninsular & Orient liner). ¶ Rusty tube of a onetime shaving stick. ¶ Portion of an English Bible. "The rest of this Bible," conjectured the diver who sent the mud up, "had been gnawed away, probably by rats before the Egypt sank." Soon primed last week with wine, spaghetti and fresh bombs, Artiglio II resumed from Brest her quest...
...idling 600 mi. off -Cape Breton one morning last week. Passengers lined the rail, crowded about a roped enclosure on the sundeck to watch a sturdy monoplane mounted on a sort of sled and turntable between the two smokestacks. Pilot Joachim Blankenburg waved a signal from the cockpit, a seaman on deck threw a lever and the sled shot to the edge of the deck, flinging the seaplane out over the water at 80 m. p. h. The plane rose rapidly, circled the Euro pa in salute, vanished into the west with mail for the U. S. and Canada...
Lieut. Clarence H. ("Dutch") Schildhauer, U. S. Naval Reserve Corps, who had been guest pilot of the DO-X since she left Lake Constance, called attention to the need for a special type of personnel on large flying boats. "None but an experienced seaman can command," said he. "The question of piloting skill is no more important with large planes than with small, but the need for commanders with stamina and executive experience in a degree comparable to the present masters of ocean liners is of paramount importance. . . ." Commander of the DO-X on her arrival last week...
Author James Gould Cozzens undoubtedly had in mind the end of Lamport & Holt Line's Vestris which, commanded by a seaman whose brain had been replaced by a fearful vacillation which caused him to delay some six hours before sending out an SOS, dragged 110 people to death three years ago (TIME...