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Curran ridiculed the suggestion that sailors could be intimidated and charged that the replacements with which the employers were manning their vessels, were "farmers, scabs, totally incompetent for, and in fact dangerous to the operation of a sea-going vessel...
...last week, willingly rehearsed his story for the Press. "Nonni" did not live long on the Icelandic farm of his birth. At 12 he was one of two healthy boys chosen to be educated in France at the expense of a rich nobleman. Crossing to Denmark in a sailing vessel, the youths got no farther than Copenhagen because of the Franco-Prussian War. Cared for by the bishop and clergy of that city, "Nonni" was converted to Catholicism, then skipped off with a troop of gypsies, was found by police after many an adventure. The two young Icelanders finally arrived...
...route from Mother Britain to this outpost of Empire last week was a sailing vessel, the Royal Mail Cap Pilar, with a cargo desperately desired by its inhabitants. The rats, reported the master of a British freighter which put in at lonely Tristan da Cunha last August, had got completely out of control of the island's single mongoose, were devouring all crops, even beginning to eat the Bibles of which Tristanites own five to a family. Last week the Cap Pilar was gallantly sailing to the rescue with twelve alley cats...
Principal requirements for the ancient ceremony of launching a naval vessel are a bunting-draped platform, a bottle of champagne, an attractive female somehow connected with the ship and a crowd of several hundred to cheer as the craft slips into the water...
Some time in the next seven years Dr. Charcot came to feel that his true calling was not medicine but exploration. In 1903 he left for the Antarctic in a small vessel called the Français, explored the Palmer Archipelago. Back in France, he built a ship which was then regarded as the last word in polar exploration vessels. This was the Pourquoi Pas ("Why Not"), a 140-ft. three-master of 449 tons, equipped with both sail and steam and reinforced for icebreaking. In 1908 he took the Pourqnoi Pas to the Antarctic, explored...