Word: seamanship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, as the overloaded Tusk slid into the harbor of Hammerfest, Norway, almost all of the town's tough, seawise population was waiting on its fishing wharves to salute a feat of courage and seamanship...
...working in an office aboard Nelson's old flagship Victory) has tried to chart a sounder course. His seamanship may be better and his course truer, but when the voyage ends he has made the same port where other biographers have tied up. The Nelson who strides down the gangplanks of The Durable Monument is less legendary and more human than the Nelson of earlier biographies, but he is still the great captain of Britain's long and memorable naval history...
Rona Jaffe '51, Felicia Reed '52, and Betty Trygstad '52 were all set to take on Commodore Pete Putnam and his men, when Radcliffe authorities stepped in to warn the three that they must pass a seamanship test before they may do any racing on the Charles...
...with Emma Calve, the opera star. "Mr. Higgins," wrote one society editor in 1898, "is not only the richest, but the handsomest unmarried New Yorker. He is a devoted golfer, an expert cross-country rider, a 'good gun,' a skillful fisherman, and a yachtsman of no mean seamanship. Sartorially, he is all that can be desired...
...Firth soaking up the shoptalk of fishermen and boatbuilders. At night he would stand watch with coast guardsmen in their lonely huts high over the harbor. As a scholar he was only fair, but when he left school after four years he took with him the highest honor for seamanship...