Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Count arrived back in Stettin harbor on his yacht, the Seeteufel, during the last week of February. He asked to be remembered to his thousands of friends and followers in America...
...TIME'S Jan. 13 story cited rumors that Count Luckner, famed sea raider of World War I, was raiding again in the Pacific, not in his yacht Seeteufel ("Sea Devil") but in a 7,100-ton armed merchantman. Now 56-according to Wer Ist's, the German Who's Wh -the Count likes to tell people he is 72, then show he is still in the prime by tearing telephone books...
...versatility. He has had experience at sea on destroyers, cruisers, battleships. He has been in charge (1928-30) of plans for fleet operations in case of war. He has been a social sailor, as naval aide-de-camp to King George V and later as captain of the royal yacht. He has taken on the toughest diplomatic job in the Royal Navy-Commander in Chief of the China Station, at a time (1938-40) when Japan was sowing her wildest oats; this post turned Sir Percy's hair from black to grey in 18 months...
...Gerald Campbell has been invited to be a guest of the members of the Far Eastern Yacht Club at the launching...
Millionaire Lambert, who likes to do things in style, gave away another yacht last week. His eleven-year-old Class J sloop Yankee, thrice-thwarted America's Cup candidate, originally built by a syndicate of Bostonians at a cost of $500,000, was turned over to a Fall River ship-junking firm. The $10,000 he will get for her bronze plating and lead ballast will be given to the Commodore of London's Royal Thames Yacht Club toward the purchase of a British fighting plane...