Word: skippering
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...tight ship should. Suddenly, out of the night, a vast shape reared above the tiny vessel. With a gasp the helmsman spun the wheel. A wall of water smashed the Sea Witch broadside, hurling her clear of a big freighter, which "slid by like a cliff." Looking up, the skipper (Charlton Heston) saw no lights on the freighter, no sign of life on the bridge. On the stern he read the rusty legend...
...kamikaze planes had splashed close by destroyer Walke when a third crashed into the bridge, drenching her skipper, Commander George F. Davis, with gasoline. For a moment, he burned like a torch. Sailors near him smothered the flames and he exhorted officers and men to save the ship. While still on his feet, he saw Walke's guns destroy a fourth kamikaze. Finally he consented to be carried below; a few hours later he died...
...wrist. Tuckfield carried a small additional item: a nose clip of rubber-padded steel. They clambered into Archerfish's tiny forward escape hatch and dogged down the door, cutting themselves off from the rest of the submarine. Over UQC came the word: all set. Penguin's skipper, Lieut. Commander George Enright, began a six-minute countdown...
With Hanson Robbins skippering the A division dinghy and Bill Saltonstall the B division one, Harvard swept the week-long championships in Providence late in June. Although its winning margin lessened towards the end of the week, the Crimson led consistently all week. Saltonstall, winning a very tight last race, became high point skipper for the B division and the whole regatta...
Other returning members of the team are Carlos Rodriguez and Larry Snideman, also David Gill, secretary of the Yacht Club, and Tom Munnell, top freshman skipper last year...