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...boyhood voyages on the Bacchante took him to the West Indies, South America, South Africa and Australia and Japan. From Japan he brought back a very nautical souvenir and he has it still, a dragon tattooed on his arm, and this, perhaps more than anything else, endears him to seamen as one of themselves...
High noon is rum time on the ships of the British Navy in temperate waters, from the dreadnaught Nelson to the little tug St. Abbs. In the tropics rum hour is 6 p. m. Then the seamen hear the quartermaster pipe, "Up spirits!" Down in the mess the caterer slops into each seaman's "basin" (bowl) one part rum in three parts water. The rum is mixed in a large tub around whose rim, in brass letters, are the words: "The King-God Bless Him." On the King's birthday all hands get a double ration of straight...
...safety by alert, courageous Coast Guardsmen. Eight lives were lost, among them some of the oldest and ablest fishing skippers along the coast. Week-end trippers at Atlantic City were banged and buffeted. At Lewes, Del. Stanley H. Johnson, Denver juvenile court judge, with his wife, daughter and two seamen, was rescued from his sinking yacht Dolphin...
...Last week the fire, starting in an unoccupied first-class cabin, swept up to the radio room, roared down to destroy the Rue de la Paix with all its luxuries, spurted from portholes with such fury that it burned up the ropes of the first lifeboat lowered, dumped seven seamen into...
...Britain, France. Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Canada, Spain, Finland, Holland, and Denmark. It was drawn up in London in 1929 after investigations into the sinking of S. S. Vestris with a loss of 112 lives in 1928. No party to the convention is the U. S. Both the International Seamen's Union and the American Federation of Labor backed the fight against it in Congress, claiming that U. S. shipping inspection laws are already more stringent than the proposals of the International Convention. They claim the following jokers exist in the Convention's wording: i) A safety certificate...