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...were reached, over which a wind was whistling jauntily. High in air climbed the dirigible, entering the Dragoon Pass; there was a great peak just as high that loomed out of the dusk, a black and ominous spike such as affrights the keels of lowlier boats, hard on the starboard side. "Left," signaled Commander Landsdowne on the bridge; the rudders turned, the Shenandoah paused, writhed, and came around, her propellers biting the wind. The peril was left behind; so also, for a moment, was the course. Then the little light of a freight train that labored along far below pointed...
Class crew men also picked their first eight. Two men were given the opportunity to choose, and the first four starboard and the first four port men made up the first boat in each club. On October 31, Coach Brown expects to race the boats. Following this he will pick class crews and spend about two weeks more working with them...
...ship is a complete loss, wedged on the reef with a 100° list, wrecked pilothouse gone, light bulkheads crushed, spar deck swept clean, gun-deck partially under water and littered with wreckage, engine rooms obstructed with wreckage and filled two feet deep with sand and coral, the starboard side crushed, one funnel, topmast and all top hamper down or overboard...
Stevens rows a starboard oar and hence a starboard rigged boat must be used, this shifts the numbers but not the relative positions of the men in Combination A. Captain Henry is now rowing number six, being a starboard oar, although he regularly rows in seat 7. Kelley is temporarily rowing at 3 in the first 150-pound boat Crew...
...Navy Department received a telegram from Rear Admiral Sumner E. W. Kittelle, Commander of the Destroyer Squadron of the Battle Fleet: "Seven vessels landed on Pedernales Point [75 miles north of Santa Barbara]. Fuller, badly on rocks, listed 20 degrees starboard; Woodbury, same, listed 40 degrees port; Chauncey, high up inside rocks, and upright; Young, on beam end, three-quarters submerged; Delphy, on beam end, three-quarters submerged and broken in half: S. P. Lee, on beach under cliffs, listed 20 degrees port; Nicholas, broadside on beach, listed 20 degrees starboard...