Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Episcopal Church of Our Saviour (see cut). Built by the Young Men's Church Missionary Society, it was meant to attract mariners who would never worship ashore at landlubbers' churches. The church existed 22 years, was succeeded by the Church of the Holy Comforter, "Free for Seamen & Boatmen." In 1870 a second Church of Our Saviour was launched. It lasted until 1910 when it was towed out to Staten Island and moored in Kill Van Kull where an Episcopal congregation still worships in it. The Young Men's Church Missionary Society, world's second oldest religious...
...motor ship of 5,113 gross tonnage, Leningrad built in 1931, trimly painted, carrying a cargo of cement, mica, chalk, fuller's earth, Caucasian wine, oil of apricots, juniper (gin) berries. All her officers and able seamen had individual outside cabins amidship. She carried two young stewardesses to feed and amuse her picked crew of young cadets. Even her name KNM (Kim} was chosen for pronunciation by non-Russian tongues. Aside from the motto "Ahead To World's Revolution" inscribed in the crew's game room (equipped with piano and radio) she took every precaution...
...South Pole where he had been in 1912 with Captain Scott. In ordinary weather the seas of the South Atlantic, with thousands of miles of unbroken run behind them, rear up like mountain ridges. But last week's storm unsettled the stomachs of all but the oldest seamen and Admiral Evans...
...more than twice the tonnage being built by Britain, six times the tonnage being built by Japan. When Admiral Standley walked out of the committee he had won that body's approval of a $286,000,000 Naval appropriation bill which provided not only 2,800 more seamen and 1,000 additional marines for the 16 new ships which will be completed in the next 17 months but also funds for beginning another 8-in. gun cruiser and three more 6-in. gun cruisers. Including PWA money, $442,000,000 will be spent on the Navy in fiscal...
...officers, petty officers, sailors, Royal Marines to jam themselves on the tiny stern deck abaft the anti-aircraft guns. A petty officer with a megaphone scrambled to the top of the stern range finder. "By the numbers, jump!" he bellowed. "One-two-three-HIPE!!" As one man. 1,300 seamen sprang in the air to land with a shattering crash directly over the cabin of "Ginger" Boyle...