Word: skippering
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...Next day Skipper Gulliver set out from Boston on his travels to exhibit the Constitution in 18 Atlantic ports this summer. Thousands watched in silence as the old frigate was towed away by the mine sweeper Grebe, her brand-new sails tightly furled. Her crew of 60 was too small to handle her under her own canvas (Captain Isaac Hull had 450 men when he beat the Guerrière). Her first port was Portsmouth, N. H. but at Gloucester she had to be towed in because...
...Lieutenant Commander W. E. MacKay, and Lieutenant Commander W. E. MacKay, and Lieutenant R. B. McRight U.S.N., who have completed their required two years land duty, will begin sea-duty next fall and are replaced by Commander R. C. Williams of the U.S.S. Barry, Lieutenant Commander C. S. Alden, skipper of the U.S.S. Jacob Jones, and Lieutenant E. A. Seay, executive officer on board the submarine...
...novel cruise on a four-masted schooner yacht with Count Felix von Luckner, the famous German sea raider, as skipper, is being planned for a group of about fifty Harvard men during the coming spring vacation...
Sunk. On a reef off Cape Fear, N. C.: the famed Ingomar, once one of the world's finest steel schooners, built by Herreshoff in 1903 for Morton Plant whose skipper Charley Barr, with his customary long cigar in his mouth, was rammed by the Kaiser's Meteor when the Kaiser, at the helm, tried to substitute Royal prerogative for racing etiquet and kept across Ingomar's bow although he did not have right of way. Outmoded as a racer, Ingomar was owned for a while by the late great Marcus Alonzo Hanna's sporting...
...Fogg Art Museum for an indefinite period. In the large common room are among other exhibits, three Japanese prints dating from the first contact with modern Europe. They include a sketch on an English lady of uncertain age, a soldier, and the portrait of a Yankee skipper. In the Tutor's common room a sculptured head, collected during the first Harvard expedition to the caves of Northern China, has been put on exhibition, together with a pair of Chinese lions, which are considered of considerable artistic merit...