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...ships, but none came. Next day Missionary Knowles and two of the crew improvised a sail and mast, set out for Acklin Island, 17 miles away. The Bishop, Miss Shedden and the rest of the crew waited that long day, marooned. Then came a Turk's Island sailing sloop which Missionary Knowles had encountered. But not until a week after that did Nassau get the news, send out a launch to fetch home its boating Bishop...
Shamrock's sail was down. Partly over the deck it lay, and partly in the sea. Some of the crew had been caught under it; some were on their feet, pulling at it. The sloop was coming up into the wind. The trouble was clear now: Shamrock's main halyard had snapped. "What a pity," said Sir Thomas Lipton as though to himself. He called his secretary, Major Westwood. "I wonder if anyone is overboard or hurt," he said. "See what you can get on the radio...
...pigeon. Unable to shake off the defender, outraced, outmaneuvred, Shamrock V trailed nearly 6 min. behind at the first marker. At the end of the reach on the second leg she was 10 min. astern the more smartly handled Enterprise. Again the winner, Skipper Vanderbilt sailed his tall white sloop across the finish line 9 min. 49 sec. in front of less resourceful Capt. Ted Heard...
Rolling in the grey North Atlantic swell, His Majesty's sloop Harebell and the steamer Dunara Castle lay off the bleak precipitous island of St. Kilda last week. Plunging out through the surf. Royal Navy lifeboats carried to the Harebell 35 passengers, the entire population of St. Kilda, which the Harebell's precise commander reported thus: Men, able bodied...
...most dependable boat in all kinds of weather." Next day Enterprise flew all her flags in celebration. Skipper Vanderbilt went ashore, played a few sets of tennis but came back in time to take her out for a sail after lunch. Down came the sails of the three beaten sloops, their tenders pulled close to tow them away. Polite in defeat, the crews, skippers, and syndicates of Weetamoe and Yankee felt that if Shamrock V had stayed in New London instead of coming to Newport the trials might have gone on. Shamrock had scared the committee by showing what...