Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chantier. There he saw to it that the Josephine was properly stowed below decks in a dismantled condition, showed his backers and friends over the craft on an inspection tour, and with 45 companions waved goodby as the Chantier slipped out of dock. Going down the bay, a sleek yacht escorted the Chantier with her owner, Vincent Astor, aboard, and other Byrd-backers, including John D. Rockefeller Jr., Edsel Ford, F. Trubee Davison, Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett. Tromso, Norway...
Professional ichthyologists of the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History fidgeted last week. The Yacht Ara was in port at Miami, Fla., carrying-besides her owner, Commodore William K. Vanderbilt, amateur ichthyologist-a fresh cargo of exotic marine life from pregnant Pacific depths. There were six-inch sharks-white and gray streaked, tinged with orange; a strange eel; a phosphorescent deep-dwelling fish; and a score or more of other creatures which no one in the Vanderbilt party was scientist enough to identify, if indeed the specimens were identifiable and not new species altogether. Here...
...Ames '28 will enter his yacht, the Primrose IV, in the first trans-Atlantic yacht race to be held in 21 years, which is to begin on June 20. The trip will be sailed in two jumps, the first of 660 miles from New London to Bermuda, to be followed by a long dash across the North Atlantic to Plymouth, England. After the Atlantic trip, Ames is expected to enter his boad in the British ocean race around Fastnet Light...
...stalked the earth last week, Death visited Monrovia Bay off the coast of Liberia, Africa. There he found a man who had lived almost two years beyond the scriptural three score and ten, a bristly-bearded old man in horn-rimmed spectacles on board a quiet yacht. Death took him, took Edward Wyllis Scripps, founder of the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers, whose address during his failing last years had been, "On Board S. S. Ohio, abroad on the waters of the world...
Died. Edward Wyllis Scripps, 72, founder of the Scripps-Howard newspapers; aboard his yacht Ohio, off the coast of Liberia; of apoplexy. (See THE PRESS...