Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With him as crew aboard the Myth II, Nominee Roosevelt took three of his four toothy sons, James. Franklin Jr. and John; Robert Delano, a nephew; and George Briggs, Boston friend. Trailing the Myth II around Cape Cod went the Ambassadress, a yacht full of political friends. Close behind the Ambassadress came the Mar con, a cabin cruiser used in the Lindbergh baby search, loaded to the gunwales with newshawks and cameramen...
Last week Hewlett and the King-Emperor were happy. In his favorite dress George V stood on the bridge of the Royal yacht Victoria & Albert, leading out to sea from Weymouth some 60 warboats and 17,000 bluejackets, the entire British Home Fleet. Purpose: sham battle...
...Nelson, the Rodney, the Hood and the Renown (together the most powerful fighting unit in the world) escorted the Royal Yacht which flew the Royal Standard (embellished with seven lions and a harp). At a signal from the King Emperor destroyers led the attack on an imaginary foe. "Enemy" destroyers fired dummy torpedoes against the Hood and the Renown, near enough for His Majesty to see. Finally the battleships Warspite, Malaya and Valiant opened up with real broadsides, fired salvo after salvo from their 15-in. guns at a target ten miles away, made so much noise that they were...
...preparing to make another flight when word came last week that the Curlew had been found by the Coast Guard cutter Marion. She was 80 mi. east of Nantucket, about 112 mi. further from Bermuda than at the start of the race. She was proceeding toward the Bronxonia Yacht Club at 3 m. p. h. The Marion escorted the Curlew into port at Newport...
...tried to put back, the wind shifted. This delayed us ... but we always knew where we were." One of the Curlew's crew, Attorney Benjamin Theeman, returned home by train. The others, after ramming and smashing a Newport wharf, successfully sailed the Curlew home to the Bronxonia Yacht Club...