Word: sloops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, Oct. 22--There wasn't anything wrong with English wit when the British Sloop Scarborough arrived today. Her commander, O. W. Cornwallis, descended from the Lord Cornwallis described himself as belonging to the family "which founded the United States of America...
When Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's blue sloop Endeavour won the first two races for the America's Cup last fortnight, it looked as if the $500 trophy which has been in Tiffany's Manhattan vaults since 1857 would presently go back to England, whence it came in 1851. When Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's white Rainbow won the next four, it looked as though the Cup would stay in the U. S. for another year at least. But no one could be sure-not even Skipper Vanderbilt himself. As he finished ahead in that sixth race...
Newport, R. I., Sept. 25--T. O. M. Sopwith and his sloop Endeavour lost today's America's Cup race with Harold Vanderbilt because he strayed far from the course on the second...
...over the hot horizon toward St. David's Head. First boat to cross the finish line in the 650-mile race from New London to Bermuda was Vamarie, owned and sailed by Vadim Stefan Makaroff. On corrected time. Vamarie was beaten by a three-week-old sloop that finished five hours later, Rudolph J. Schaefer's Edlu. A new rule this year put boats over 40 ft., instead of over 53 ft., in Class A. Yacht-Designer Olin Stephens' famed 52-ft. Dorade, winner of Class B in the last Bermuda race, last week finished fifth...
...British naval sloop Milford, Vice Admiral Edward Radcliffe Garth Russell Evans commanding, hove to in the bleak South Atlantic one day last week to ride out a 70 m.p.h. storm. Brave Admiral Evans could not have found a lonelier spot. Full 2,000 mi. northeast lay Bechuanaland where last September he did his duty as a Briton and an officer in banishing a South African chief who had punished a white man (TIME, Sept. 25 et seq.). Four thousand miles farther on was Britain. Three thousand miles to the south was the South Pole where he had been...