Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corsair (IV), enormous $2,500,000 yacht of John Pierpont Morgan, with Mr. and Mrs. Junius Spencer Morgan aboard, shelved herself on Lobster Rock, a reef in Gilkey's Harbor, Maine. Next morning at high tide two tugs heaved sturdily, budged her not. At evening high tide two tugs and a coast guard cutter heaved mightily, floated her free. Mr. Morgan received the news at Gannochy Lodge in Forfarshire where he had gone for the grouseshooting...
...Howard van Sciver, onetime commodore of the Tri-State Yacht Club at Philadelphia, his son, his daughter and two other young girls, clad only in bathing suits, escaped unharmed when the van Sciver yacht Clarella II caught fire off Cape...
...could do in light winds. One day, out to stretch her rig, she whisked under her own power through the entire U. S. defense fleet which lay so becalmed that they had to have launches tow them into port. Meanwhile, Sir Thomas Lipton continued to live quietly on his yacht Erin, going ashore seldom, once to motor around Ocean Drive with Mayor Sullivan of Newport. Captain Ben Pine, owner of the fishing schooner Gertrude L. Thebaud, came to see him and Sir Thomas said he would put up a cup for the Gloucester fishing sloop races...
British author, was elected to membership in the Royal Yacht Squadron of Cowes in whose regatta King George V competed three weeks ago. Long ago, the Royal Yacht Squadron blackballed Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, proposed by his friend King Edward VII. Sir Thomas is a member, however, of 13 other royal yacht clubs...
...Patsy, 12-metre sloop sailed by Tycoon John Jacob Raskob: a race in the Chester River Yacht Club regatta off Baltimore. Second was John J. Raskob Jr. in a 10-metre boat...