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...British trawler Girl Pat, whose crew ran away with her on All Fools' Day, was finally nabbed at Georgetown, British Guiana (TIME, June 8, 22 & 29), England has been kept atwitter by a series of Rover-Boys-at-Sea personal accounts by the Girl Pat's doughty Skipper George Black ("Dod") Orsborne spreadeagled across the pink pages of London's sensational Sunday newspaper The People. Other excerpts...
Last week, Britain's sensation-reading public had something else to ponder besides Skipper Orsborne's memories artfully ghost-written in third-rate Kiplingese. Up in Bow Street Court stood Skipper "Dod" and his Brother Jim Orsborne to hear themselves indicted for stealing the Girl Pat. Trial begins next month in Old Bailey, promises to provide some Grade A nautical sensations. As the two accused sailors stepped out of the iron-grilled prisoners' dock, their lawyer, Christmas Humphreys, hinted: "Very serious allegations will have to be made against certain witnesses for the prosecution...
...Miss. A novice sailor, Louisiana's Leche selected Commodore Garner N. Tullis of the Southern Yacht Club to be his skipper. Mississippi's White, however, had no trouble winning the race. Said the Governor of Louisiana to the Governor of Mississippi: "Governor, you're a damn fine sailor...
Main feature of yachting's biggest international event has always been the unsporting controversies that precede, accompany and follow it. Main feature of Skipper Sopwith's challenge was the date he proposed for the first race, July 24. The date suits him because his challenger, Endeavour II, built last winter, has been racing all this summer. It does not suit the New York Yacht Club because it leaves little time to tune up an as yet unbuilt defender next spring. First job of the committee which the Club last week empowered to act on the challenge will...
...should be sunk and not used for any charitable purpose after his death. The late King's sailing master, Sir Philip Hunloke, tried to buy the Britannia's mainsheet, 70 fathoms long, but souvenir hunters outbid him. Prices also proved too high for Captain Turner, long-time skipper and yachting favorite of King George. He watched while $20 was paid for a boathook, $160 for the Britannia's red & green sidelights, and $1,500 by an enthusiastic ex-M. P. for her 18-ft. motor launch in which he proposes to go swankly chugging on the Thames...