Word: sloops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poor discipline and short-handedness were usual conditions of Congress's navy, which reached its peak in 1777 and then declined rapidly to seven vessels. Three-masted and square-rigged, the frigates and sloops of war were small and fast, with a gun range as far as one-half mile. Of the three top U. S. commanders, John Paul Jones is the best known in history and balladry. Son of a Scotch gardener, a true corsair and soldier of fortune, he served first under John Barry and Hopkins. When given command of a sloop, he sailed to Brest, seized many...
...Vagabond decided to make his Columbus holiday different from just another day off from classes. Heading for Gloucester early in the morning he boarded his trim sloop and swung rapidly around the jetty on Eastern Point, laying a course for the whistling buoy off Thatcher Island on the tip of Cape Ann. Soon wisps of fog rolled in on the heels of a fresh southerly breeze, and he checked his position before losing all sight of the surrounding waters. Miraculously the fog blew away in a few minutes, and he saw the twin towers of lighthouses that stand on Thatcher...
...been sighted by the British tanker Amastra 750 miles off the Azores, tolled its historic Lutine Bell at the good news. But from the Amastra by radio came a prompt and puzzling denial. Four days later word came that another British tanker, the Cheyenne, had sighted the missing sloop 260 mi. off the coast of Ireland and the Lutine Bell tolled again, first occasion it had ever been rung a second time for one ship...
...quarter the two ships might have expected to scud down to their destination in three or four days. The bigger of the two, the 168-ft. Seven Seas, once had a speed of 18 knots entered in her log (five knots better than the best time of the sloop-rigged America's Cup-winning Ranger). But the breeze last week was light and from the south, too close for the three-masters to lay a straight course. It seemed likely that the race might last a fortnight...
...Nathaniel Rubinkam's sloop Rubaiyat: the 30th annual Chicago to Mackinac Island, Mich, yacht race, longest (331 mi.) fresh-water race in the world; for the second year in a row, after weathering a 60 m.p.h. gale which Rubinkam described as worse than anything he had ever experienced on the Atlantic; in elapsed time...