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...Savannah to New York and Boston. On a fine clear night last week she steamed out of Long Island Sound into the ocean on the last leg of her northward voyage. Only a few miles beyond Block Island, off the Rhode Island coast she sighted a light off her starboard bow. The light was low on the water and for a time was taken as the light of a rum runner, then suddenly it became apparent that the boat carrying the light was about to cross the steamer's bow. The Captain of the City of Rome...
...helmet, dropped overside like a sinker, 213 feet to the bottom. When he followed his stream of bubbles back up to the surface, he told his comrades that they had indeed found the Merida, a ship sunk 14 years ago in collision. She was lying on her starboard side, he said, still well preserved; he had been able to read her name on bows and stern...
...Magnus principle, that wind passing over any surface creates suction on that surface, greatest on any part of the surface that does not move with the wind. Thus, the forward surface of a rotorship's cylinder being made to move into the wind - i. e., clockwise into a starboard wind, counterclockwise to a larboard jwind-suction is strongest on that forward surface and the ship is drawn ahead...
Away puffed the little steamer, out of Novorossiisk harbor into the West. After 200 miles of steaming, the dark mountains of Crimea loomed to starboard. There lay Balaclava, where the British charged; there Sevastapol, where they used to ship tons of grain from the eastern Steppes. The little steamer heeled off northerly, past Cape Tarkhan, toward the Ukraine, for Odessa...
...table chosen by the Prince is a small one, seating two, and is in an inconspicuous corner formed by an alcove on the starboard side not far from the entrance. Adjacent tables have been taken for the Prince's party. The ship's jazz orchestra, which plays in the reception room outside the dining room, is posted on the same side of the ship and the space used for after-dinner dancing is also on that side. "The ship's gymnasium, swimming pool and squash racquets court will be available to the Prince at hours to suit...