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...soon to nose into the north with both Johnson brothers aboard. Their destination was to be Newfoundland, where they would search the ice-bitten shores for traces of the 40-ft. sloop Leif Ericsson which sailed out of Reykjavik, Iceland, last August under an amateut Norwegian skipper with a party of artists to "follow the trail of the Vikings" to Nova Scotia. Last winter, the U. S. cruiser Trenton scoured Northern waters for these missing mariners, found nothing...
...Eggs of the halobate, the only seagoing insect in the world, a long-legged ocean pedestrian similar to the fresh-water skipper or water spiders. These eggs, hitherto undiscovered, were found on the floating feathers of gannets (species of pelican...
...That stood for little Robbie Dollar, who romped about Falkirk, Scotland, more than three-quarters of a century ago. It stood for Robbie, the Canadian lumberjack, who ventured into business for himself, bought a 300-ton boat because lumber freights were so high. It stood for the ingenious skipper who, stranded in the Philippines without a return cargo, waded ashore to a virgin island, found copra?the beginning of an industry that is now worth $22,000,000 annually. It stood for Captain Dollar ?the idol of China's merchants, who, in half a century, never caused...
Married. Herbert Hartley, 50, skipper of the Leviathan, to Miss Mary W. Wilson, of Opelika...
...Bertram Fox Hayes, 60, famed White Star Steamship captain. In Sussex, England, he will live ashore with his two sisters, write his memoirs. For 43 years he has commanded great ships. In the Boer War, on his ship, the old Britannic, he carried 37,000 men to Africa. As skipper of the Olympic, converted into a transport during the World War, he carried 30,000 troops and "never lost a soldier." He sank one submarine by gunfire, another by ramming its stern, for which exploits he was knighted. A famed Indian chief who crossed with him on the Olympic made...