Word: skipperly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Skipper Beach (Annapolis '39) is the son of the late Captain Edward Beach, who commanded the battleship New York in 1918-19 and who wrote Navy stories for children. Ned Beach won the Navy Cross, Silver Stars and a chestful of other medals as a World War II submariner, recorded his adventures in two big-selling books, Submarine! and Run Silent, Run Deep (a novel that was made into a movie...
...line. Three other ships missed lock approaches and ran aground. At the head of the lakes the Norwegian freighter Dagfred won the race to pick up the season's first grain cargo-and slammed its bow into a Port Arthur grain elevator. As one British tanker skipper said wryly: "The season has opened with a bang...
...hovering helicopters dumped bright flowers on the dented and travel-worn U.S. nuclear submarine Sargo last week as it churned back to its Pearl Harbor home base after a 6,000-mile round trip to the North Pole. When Sargo's boyish skipper, Lieut. Commander John H. Nicholson, 35, told his tale, it was clear that the warm welcome was hard earned by cold courage...
...bull's-eye-the Pole was only 25 yards away. Electronics Technician Second Class Harold ("Pineapple") Meyer marched to the Pole, planted a candy-striped pole on the spot, and hoisted the state flag of Hawaii. While other crewmen went out in rotating groups of 20 to explore, Skipper Nicholson radioed to Operation Deepfreeze headquarters at the South Pole (loud and clear). Then he submerged, took Sargo on "a quick seven-minute trip around the world." On two of their Arctic surfacings, the crewmen spotted tracks of polar bears, happily went hunting for them. Score: none sighted, none bagged...
...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...