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...length into her narrow slip at 52nd Street because the tugs' crews were on strike. What to do? In she goes, commanded Captain Geoffrey Thrippleton Marr, 57, and with infinite care, using hawsers and anchors and great good seamanship, he and his tars brought their gigantic vessel to dock all by themselves. So precise was his reckoning that the captain even noticed the tide was ebbing a few minutes early. "Rain upcountry, that sort of thing," he figured. It took almost 1½ hours, but not an inch of paint was scraped. "Well done, sir!" called a first-class...
...Hope. Chichester arrived safe, happy, and exhausted after 105 days at sea. This week, Chichester will set out alone once more, heading for England by way of the perilous route around South America's Cape Horn, whose vicious seas and fickle winds have destroyed many a fully manned vessel. Back home, another old salt, Captain Alan Villiers, who skippered a replica of the Mayflower from England to Massachusetts in 1957, thought that this was tempting providence too far. "I have begged Chichester not to attempt it," said Villiers. "God has been very good to him and very patient. This...
...VESSEL OF WRATH, by Robert Lewis Taylor. A whimsical tour of the trail that hatchet-swinging Carry Nation blazed through the hogsheads and saloons of her time...
...vessel in question is the San Pablo, a U.S. gunboat all too patently presented as America in microcosm, which has orders to show the flag on China's Yangtze River and shoot, if necessary, to protect American lives during the political uprisings...
...VESSEL OF WRATH, by Robert Lewis Taylor. A new and nimble biography of Carry Nation, whose hatchet made a shambles of saloons from Medicine Lodge to Coney Island...