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...deemed to have all but failed." Boating buffs remembered 1939, when Evaine herself was beaten handily in British waters by the U.S.'s visiting Vim, now one of four potential U.S. cup defenders. There were better helmsmen available, critics argued, than Sceptre's 34-yearold skipper, Lieut. Commander Graham Mann, onetime sailing master for the royal family. As a matter of fact, some added, there were altogether too many navymen in the challenger's afterguard. They acted as if they knew it all, and were slow to get down to serious training...
...June 9 article "Unlucky Ship" has been read throughout our ship, the U.S.S. Silverstein DE-534. It is our opinion that you have done our ship and our skipper a great injustice especially for the phrase "the Bad Ship Silverstein." The Silverstein is the best ship in the U.S. Navy, and the crew is proud to serve...
...caught the waterlogged tangle with her keel. Two days later the Finisterre had spinnaker trouble too. Despite an elaborate net of lines designed to keep it from fouling, the soaring, cranky sail yanked loose and fouled blocks at the head of the mainmast. For a nerve-racking hour Skipper Mitchell headed Finisterre back into the wind, riding under jigger alone to keep his boat steady while a crew member was hauled into the rigging to make repairs, and other boats slipped away toward the horizon...
Last week Silverstein got it again. On antisubmarine maneuvers off Pearl Harbor, Commander Charles S. Swift, the skipper, looked up to see the sub Stickleback dead ahead at 200 yds. Stickleback had just made a simulated torpedo run on Silverstein, was supposed to have dived to a safe depth. Skipper Swift reversed all engines, but was too late to avoid chopping a fatal 4-ft.-wide gash in Stickleback's side. Before sinking to the bottom, Stickleback managed to surface under its own power, making it possible for all 82 crewmen to escape unhurt. Silverstein's sea lawyers...
...total of about 38 weightless hours. But bad weather and reassignment of planes had ruled out Major Stallings as my guide. Instead, I became the guest of the Tactical Air Command at Langley A.F.B., just inside the Virginia capes. Assigned to the project was Lieut. Colonel Devol ("Rock") Brett, skipper of the 355th Fighter Squadron and son of World War II's Lieut. General George H. Brett, now retired. West Pointer Brett, 34, veteran jet pilot, had hit the zero-gravity state for a few seconds on countless occasions, especially at the beginning of an outside loop...