Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Saunders, steward on the Lucilla, was drowned. Tom Wright, seaman on Lord Waring's cutter White Heather, had both his legs broken in a squall. Three other yachts were dismasted or overturned. Britannia was kept out of the races one day with a split mainsail...
...said a letter from her husband last week. ". . . [a Negro named] Redmond grasped her by the ankles and she fell downward, striking against the steel plates . . . with terrific force. . . . Although the shock nearly dragged him [Redmond] overboard, he was pulled back by two of his companions." (Seaman J. W. Walker caught a stout lady, had no quickwitted companions, perished). Bruised and scorched though she was, Mrs. Dayton joined Ship's Nurse Dorothy Mannix in treating the wounded, many of whom died in her arms from lung burns or ghastly body burns. Vice President McNeil said to Mrs. Dayton...
Prime purpose of the institute-like that of the Seaman's Society of London whose patron is sea-minded King George and at whose annual banquet last fortnight the Prince of Wales presided-is to keep sailors from losing touch with religion. But the large part of its work has become to provide a moral hotel (1,500 rooms and beds) and amusement place (10,000 visitors daily) for seamen ashore, to help them in physical need, to locate them for worried families...
...Pole, with 12 men, motors, ponies. The motor failed first, then the ponies; Scott went on with four men, on foot; he reached the Pole on Jan. 18. It was a long trip back (1,766 miles), weather conditions were much worse than anticipated, rations insufficient. First Seaman Evans, strongest man of the party, dropped in his tracks, died. Then Lieutenant Oates began to weaken. One night, after they had made camp, Oates went out of the tent, declared he might be gone some time, never came back. But his sacrifice was vain; 177 miles from safety, Scott...
...superintendent of an apartment house on Seaman Avenue. Today a wagon of the A. S. P. C. A. stopped in front of this house. A man got out of the wagon and he said to me: "Have...