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Start in lije: a futile attempt, at the age of 12, to stow away on a sailing vessel for world explorations...
...Ellison might be called an Equatorial commuter. Retired in 1922, it is his boast that he has been almost continuously at sea since the age of 15. He has served in the East and West Indies, in the Mediterranean, Africa, China. In 1901 he was Navigating Lieutenant of the vessel which carried King George and Queen Mary (then Duke and Duchess of York) round Britain's colonies. Though it has no connection with last week's marine horseplay, he is a Companion of the Bath...
Navy Yard workmen who had built the V-5 gave Mrs. Adams a silver platter on which was an engraved likeness of their handiwork. The V-5 is a long-range cruising vessel, 371 feet long, with a surface displacement of 2,760 tons.* She will be commissioned next May. Plans were hastened for starting construction on her twin...
...assist. Beneath a white pall, in a quiet, gelid sea, the Fort Victoria listed further and further to starboard until only seasoned Captain Albert R. Francis, his pilot, and a skeleton crew of twelve vigorous pumpers remained on board. An attempt was made to tow the foundering vessel to shore, but at length the bubbling water closed over it. Captain Francis and Pilot Frank Moran, last to slide down one horizontal side, were hauled by rescuers out of the Fort Victoria's sinking whorl. All the crew and 255 passengers-everyone aboard-had been saved without accident except...
...above and below the mine itself. To explode the mine a ship does not have to strike the cylinder, it may touch any part of the cable, and an electrical contact will set off the dynamite. This device makes possible many explosions which would otherwise never occur, as a vessel rarely strikes the mine...