Word: skippering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skipper, Commodore Harry V. Manning, held her to a fairly leisurely pace until the liner was some 100 miles off the Virginia Capes. Then he turned up her engines to something like full speed...
...African Queen. A prissy old maid (Katharine Hepburn) and a gin-swilling skipper (Humphrey Bogart) triumph over jungle heat and the hangman's noose in John Huston's Technicolored version of C. S. Forester's adventure yarn (TIME...
...bridge and asked the captain if he had the conn," i.e., if the captain was taking over responsibility for the ship's course. "He answered, 'I have the conn.' " After the vessel turned to the left, the O.O.D. went so far as to warn the skipper that the Wasp was closing perilously fast. Tierney, he testified, did not reply, and, with the Wasp 1,240 yards away, ordered "left standard rudder" a second time...
Into the Sea. What, the court asked, would Lieut. Hoefer have done at this point? "Right full rudder, hard full rudder!" he said. But the skipper, with the carrier only 750 yards away, had called, "Increase to left full-increase to hard left!" Then he signaled the engine room for flank speed. A few seconds later, with a fearful rending of steel, the Wasp crashed into the destroyer; only a few minutes after that, Commander Tierney leaped into the sea, never to be seen again...
...African Queen. A prissy old maid (Katharine Hepburn) and a gin-swilling skipper (Humphrey Bogart ) triumph over jungle and the hangman's noose in ohn Huston's Technicolored version...