Word: seamanship
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...crews of these little vessels began their arduous service with absolutely no training in ordinary seamanship, not to mention the detailed tactics required for the peculiar warfare in which they were to be employed. The entire fleet did not contain more than one percent of graduates of Annapolis or five percent of experienced sailors. Practically all, officers and men, were civilians, a few more amateur yachtsmen, but the bulk of them were American college undergraduates. "Boys of Yale, Harvard, Princeton-indeed practically every college and university in the land-had dropped their books, left the comfort of their fraternity houses...
...Esperanto and the Delawana. The trophy, now at Gloucester, will be sailed for again next summer, and it is quite certain that no yacht masquerading as a fisherman will be allowed to compete. Such is the not uncertain dictum of the "Herald", and all lovers of rough and ready seamanship will heartily endorse this stand on the part of the Canadian journal...
Esperanto, two-masted schooner, outward bound from Gloucester to Halifax, has aroused the interest of all who are familiar with the traditions and character of American seamanship. For that same schooner, an American vessel with an American crew, is to race the challenger from Canada for the supremacy of North Atlantic waters. No butterfly drifting contest, this, but a real battle, regardless of weather conditions, and fought out by men of the old clipper-ship stock--men who are best able to uphold our fame and reputation...
...addition to the regular drill, all the men have four daily classes, in navigation, regulations, ordnance, and seamanship. There is also an evening study-hour of one hour and a half in Widener Library. Reveille is at 5.45 and taps at 9.30, and the men have hardly any time off during...
...classes have been started to give the men training in the Practice and Theory of Seamanship, Ordinance, and Signalling. They are to meet on Monday, Wednesday and Friday; the time will be posted...