Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Admittedly the Chinese losses are running much higher than those of the Japanese, but not in the exaggerated proportions which appear in the Japanese papers. There are a great number of Japanese women being rapidly trained as nurses and shipped to the war zone; no one supposes that these are intended primarily for the benefit of the wounded Chinese soldiery. By the first of September there were already shiploads of wounded being sent back to Japan in almost every ship that called at Shanghai. When the Nagaski Maru docked at Kobe on September 8, the wounded soldiers carried...
Back in the 80's a three-masted schooner bound for Boston with a cargo of molasses, coca, and pickled limes struck the south shore of Nantucket, driven by snow squalls and heavy seas. The ship wallowed helplessly in the breakers, and like a consuming disease the surf began pounding the vessel to pieces. Hearing of the disaster, hundreds of citizens hastened to the sands to render aid. But good intentions meant nought, for before their frosted eyes a cold drama was approaching its climax. The crew, clinging to the rigging--which were giant, slim icicles, slowly were freezing...
...ship, famous in Freshman annals, had left on her third trip of the afternoon, and was plowing peacefully along under the direction of Freshman coach Harvey Love when danger of collision with the Browne and Nichols wharf became imminent...
...Love was so engrossed with his instruction of several green oars near the bow that he failed to notice the fast-approaching obstruction until it was too late. The crash resulted in a long gash torn in the starboard side, and the ship settled rapidly...
Back at Newell boathouse, capable attendants predicted that the historic ship could and would be repaired in short order. Said coxswain Henry D. Oyen '41: "I thought I had plenty of room...