Word: skippering
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...that day in November, the San Demetrio in front, slicing through a calm sea. When the German raider opened up she was directly in line of fire, was struck at once, despite the gallant efforts of the Jervis Bay to take the full blow. His ship badly smashed, the skipper ordered his crew to the boats. As they dropped astern, the San Demetrio was struck again and began to blaze. The weather began to kick up. Two of the boats disappeared. All afternoon, through the night, and most of the next day the third lifeboat tossed on the Atlantic...
Last week the court awarded the claimants ?14,700 salvage money: ?2,000 of it to Skipper Hawkins; ?1,000 to the estate of Joe Boyle. Another ?1,000 went to 26-year-old Oswald Ross Preston, U. S. volunteer to the R. A. F., now on duty with the Eagle Squadron, because he played a "magnificent" part when the battle started. To his prize money the crew added the tattered red ensign of the San Demetrio, never hauled down till she reached the Clyde...
...only British troops the Italians ever captured," said the Australian skipper, they were on their way to Tobruch "for show pieces...
...prisoners could identify the captors, survivors of an Indian Ocean sinking who reached Hong Kong reported that the biggest troublemaker in the Pacific was the onetime British-owned Glengarry, a 7,100-ton merchantman captured by the Germans at Copenhagen and fitted out as an auxiliary cruiser. Its skipper: Count Felix von Luckner, who hoodwinked the British for eight months in World War I, while his Seeadler ran up a score of 15 ships in the Atlantic and Pacific, who boasted his exploits had never cost a life...
Gardner compared the election to the selection of a skipper to run a ship when it is certain that the ship is running into a storm. "The men who command must have the loyalty of the whole group which constitutes society," Gardner declared, stating that he considered Willkie to approach far nearer this ideal than Roosevelt...