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...trans-channel conference. But as the Bremen neared Cherbourg the two English valets were suddenly told to repack their masters' belongings. The British liner Majestic was told to stand by at Cherbourg breakwater for the Governor of the Bank of England. When the Bremen reached Cherbourg breakwater a tug puffed out. Down, down, down an exciting rope-ladder climbed nimble Governor Norman, Economist Sprague and valets. The tug puffed over to the Majestic. Hand over hand, foot over foot, up another rope-ladder climbed masters & servants. The Governor of the Bank of England was returned to Southampton safely...
...lovely. . . . She was the last achievement in sailing-ship building and rigging: nothing finer had been done, or ever was done." But her very first voyage started with disaster. While still under tow she ran into heavy weather which thickened rapidly into a hurricane, parted her from her tug and left her riding helpless. The storm whipped her new rigging to shreds. Some gear swinging loose killed her captain. The blow over, she limped back to Liverpool for repairs...
...Thomas had put the Erin about. A black tug had taken the disabled Shamrock in tow and started back to Newport. Sir Thomas was cracking jokes. They told him that one of his guests, Miss Eugenie Whitmore of Omaha, had gone down to her cabin to cry. When she reappeared Sir Thomas cracked a couple of jokes especially for her. He insisted that the race counted and said his boat would be ready to race again next...
Then suddenly, as it often does on the New England coast, the fog began to lift under a six-mile north by east wind. The committee boat announced the course: leeward 15 mi. to the tug Thomas F. Moran, 15 mi. back into the wind to Brenton's Reef. Majestically the high-rigged contenders sailed up to the line, broke out their ballooners and the race was on. Enterprise led off, steadily increased her lead to 50 yd. An hour later Captain Heard, taking advantage of a favorable blow, sailed up bow to bow with the defender. Then Enterprise...
Major Sir Charles William James Orr, Governor & Commander in Chief of the Bahamas, clambered from the S. S. Berengaria to a tug at Quarantine, N. Y., caught the outbound S. S. Munargo, saved two weeks between England and Nassau...