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Twenty Chinese coolies in Cuba, and each had $500. Each was willing to part with it to get into the United States. The Mary Beatrice, small Bahama sponge-fishing schooner with an unnamed skipper, offered to accommodate them at that price. The Chinamen boarded her at Havana, paying half the fare in advance...
These schooners are each run by a skipper and crew of nine or ten hard-boiled fishermen. They are usually armed with sawed-off shotguns and always with automatic pistols...
...French Sea Captain: "I tried to sight Easter Island in the South Pacific Ocean and saw nothing but water. Some people think that the island sank in the recent earthquake; others point 'out that I am a French skipper...
...Jersey Coast and waits for bootlegger launches to come and carry its liquor to New York or Jersey. The crews of the rum ships do not trust the bootleggers; they are armed with .45 caliber automatics. The reason for this state of continual naval preparedness was divulged by the skipper of the Tuscarora, as trim a whiskey-running schooner as ever dumped her weekly 2,000 cases in a bootleg lighter. In a press interview the skipper pointed out that bootleggers, angry at the high prices charged for Scotch and rye, sometimes turn pirate, board a small ship and steal...
...opposition to the Harvard Yacht Club, of some years' standing, but rather for the purpose of bringing together men actually interested in practical boat sailing. Several prominent yachtsmen and authorities on nautical matters will speak at the meetings which will be held fortnightly. The following officers have been elected; skipper, A. B. Green '07; first mate, H. M. Tillinghast '07; second mate, W. L. Phillips '08; quartermaster...