Word: skipperly
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Acting Captain Chow Jockie brought his 5,000-ton British freighter into Port Elizabeth's bustling, cliff-rimmed harbor. A veteran officer in the British Mercantile Marine and a welcome caller at many a port, the sea-beaten Chinese skipper had never before been in South Africa...
...Little Trouble. Over Europe, just as we saw the first flak, we had a little trouble. The skipper said "Number Four engine is actin' up, but I'm gonna take her on, anyway." He feathered it a while, then unfeathered just before we hit the German border...
Navy Lieut. Alfred GwynneVanderbilt, 31-year-old turfman turned South Pacific PT-boat skipper, was photographed with his 29-year-old brother George (also a lieutenant) at an advanced base in New Guinea (see cut). Apparently greasemonkeys to a considerable chunk of naval equipment, the descendants of the fabulous, family-founding skipper of the Staten Island ferry betrayed their rank only by their officer-like mustaches...
Knowing himself beyond medical aid, Captain Folster called for a slug of brandy, then ordered his men to abandon ship. As the boats pulled away and the ship settled in the water, ablaze from end to end, the survivors heard a weird sound. The skipper had propped himself up, got hold of the whistle lanyard with his good arm and sent his last salute−dot-dot-dot-dash−the Morse code V for Victory...
Death Blow. "The skipper said he was going to set her down on the sea, and for me to open an escape hatch. The Jap came in again. His guns blazed. A bullet hit the skipper in the chest but he still kept the plane under control. Somehow, with one foot shot away, part of his face blown in, his hands a mass of bloody flesh and a hole straight through his chest, he did set the 'Golden Gator' down on the water. ... I picked myself up and reached for the skipper. But he was dead...