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...idea of this cruise of the "Nereus" with a crew made up entirely of college students, was conceived some three months ago by Captain B. W. Joy and Lieutenant Commander John McCracken, who are to share the command of the vessel during the three months cruise It is the first time that such a trip has ever been undertaken, and the response among seafaring college men has been quick in the various colleges of the East where recruiting stations have been opened. The maximum capacity for the cruise is 100 berths, and already a crew of over...
...vessel is the "Nereus", a steel schooner, square-rigged. It is 242 feet in length, 39 feet wide, with a depth of 23 feet. She has a gross tonnage of over 8,000 tons, and her masts, which are steel, shoot up 150 feet above the deck...
...Società Libera Triestina launched the second largest refrigerator ship in the Italian mercantile marine. The vessel was named Edda, after Benito's daughter, Edda Mussolini, who was present at the launching ceremony at the San Marco Shipyards, Trieste...
Dean James Edwin Lough of the Extramural Division of New York University is planning to charter the Shipping Board vessel President Arthur to be used by 450 students and a faculty of 40. The students will complete one year of college work while making a tour around the world. Under naval discipline, they will witness the Panama Canal, Asiatic waters, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, Atlantic ports as far north as Christiania and Bergen...
...Watson in his lecture will give a brief history of whaling, telling the reasons for its former prosperity and for its decline. He will also recount the details of an entire whaling voyage; beginning at the wharves where the vessel is put in order and out-fitted, and then going on to such matters as shipping the crew, leaving port, cruising for whales, chasing and capturing a whale, "cutting in" the animal and "drying-out his blubber. Mr. Watson told the CRIMSON reporter of his interest in the old industry. "Although I have never been whaling in my life...