Word: seamanship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sort of red-carpet greeting ordinarily reserved for important allies, Ethiopia's wiry Emperor Haile Selassie, 67, took a sightseeing cruise down the Volga and through the Volga-Don Canal. At Stalingrad he took the helm of the steamship Arkady Geidar, gave a brief demonstration of seamanship to prove that the Lion of Judah is no landlubber...
...half a million or so sailboaters in the U.S., who pride themselves on skillful ability to match wits with wind, tides and currents, without the crutch of a gasoline engine. To many of them, powerboatmen are simply "stinkpotters." who think there is nothing more to know about seamanship than how to push a starter button and steer. They in turn suffer the derisive snort of "rag-haulers." The schism runs deep. After all, say the rag-haulers, we were here first...
...whose feckless abandon yearly kills and maims scores of other boatmen and bathers. New federal and state laws are now tightening requirements on registration and demanding strict adherence to traffic rules. Better still is the growing organization of Coast Guard Auxiliary and Power Squadrons, which give free instruction in seamanship, successfully instill a sense of pride in new boat owners...
Captain Gralla and his crew spectacularly beat the odds. The weather was foul for all three shots-in the third, Norton Sound was hidden from her escorts by a snowstorm-but the rocketmanship and the seamanship were superb. Each countdown, with 60 Navy and civilian technicians briskly at work, took six hours. Minutes before firing, rocketmen removed the heated blanket draped around the bird to keep electrical relays from freezing up. Then they took cover, while the firing officer waited until the ship was at the right degree of pitch and roll to enable the rocket...
Died. Donald W. Sorrell, 64, onetime skipper (retired since 1956) of the Queen Mary, who, during the New York tugboat strike of 1953, displayed his master seamanship by turning on the knuckle of Manhattan's Pier 90, bending his behemoth of the seas into her slip without the services of the usual flotilla of tugs; of a heart ailment; in Southampton, England...