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...Columbus must have derived great satisfaction from this voyage. . . . Over the biggest fleet that had yet crossed deep water, manned by twelve to fifteen hundred seamen ... he had kept discipline during a voyage that lasted fourteen weeks . . . and lost but a single...
...night before sighting land the Admiral knew it was near (as the best experienced seamen do) by the look of the sea, the gathering of clouds, and the flight of birds. He ordered sail to be shortened lest they overrun in the night. . . . It was a nervous night . . . with the dipsey lead hove every quarter-hour; . . .the young and inexperienced imagining that they saw lights and heard breakers, the officers testy and irritable, and the Admiral calmly keeping vigil...
Samuel Eliot Morison, 52, is a Harvard professor of history, Boston-born, an authority on clipper ships and Yankee seamen, author of an eloquent tribute to seafarers in The Maritime History of Massachusetts, an amateur yachtsman who for 40 years has been sailing small boats along the New England coast...
...problem no longer to Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, the German Navy, and Russian and Norwegian authorities, the freighter City of Flint was safe home in Baltimore at week's end. With three months' pay and a bonus in their shoregoing pants, safe were her seamen in "Mae's Tavern," "Joe's Place" and the "Jolly Spot." Home was the sailor, with yarns to tell...
LONDON--A wave of German bombing planes sweeping upon the British coasts for the second consecutive day bombed and machine gunned at least eight ships today and increased to 50 or more the lives of seamen taken in the "Blitzkrieg" attacks of the past 48 hours...