Word: skippering
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...Willie!" They embarked in June 1898, bound for Siboney, Cuba. By his account, it was the third notable amphibious operation in U.S. history. (First two: Washington crossing the Delaware and the landing at Vera Cruz during the Mexican War.) Since the troop transports were commercially chartered, the skipper could choose his own disembarkation point, which ranged up to a half-mile offshore. The horses and mules panicked, with the result that the Rough Riders rode in name only. The first quasi action of Post's outfit was to rush up and relieve the Rough Riders who had got themselves...
...ambitious young cadet in time became the debonair Right Honorable Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma, K.G., P.C., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.. G.C.V.O., K.C.B., D.S.O. He was a destroyer flotilla skipper in the Mediterranean, later Britain's wartime South East Asia commander, and then Viceroy of India during India's difficult transition to independence. At last, after achieving, like his father before him, the rank of First Sea Lord, he became Britain's first Chief of the Defense Staff...
...their nearest rival, who by rule is compelled to fish them out. The salt spray often freezes, glazing the floorboards with ice, and the cold numbs the pain of injury. Knapp's index finger was badly frostbitten last year, but he cannot recall when it happened. Skipper Alex Gest noticed a pool of blood in his dinghy. "I had to take a look," he says, "to see which hand...
...joined in the no-dues, no-assets Frostbite Yacht Club. The club burgee is a polar bear standing on a cake of ice, his rump raised to the wind, and after the annual regatta, awards are passed out: i.e., Upholder of the Right of the Port Tack (to the skipper with the least regard for racing rules), Order of Sparta (to the racing committee that laid out the most uncomfortable course in the worst weather), Order of the Unwashed (provisional membership for those who have stayed out of the drink for five years, full membership if they have been...
Died. Captain George E. Bridgett, 97, British-born seadog who ran away to sea at 14, retired as a tanker skipper for Standard Oil in 1928, but at the outbreak of World War II faked his age, passed his physical and won command of the Liberty Ship Pierre S. Du Pont, celebrated his 80th birthday under heavy bombardment at Malta; in San Francisco...