Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eight lives were lost, among them some of the oldest and ablest fishing skippers along the coast. Week-end trippers at Atlantic City were banged and buffeted. At Lewes, Del. Stanley H. Johnson, Denver juvenile court judge, with his wife, daughter and two seamen, was rescued from his sinking yacht Dolphin...
...sleep well, since Sr. Machado is reported to have a personal deposit with the Bank of England of 500,000 gold dollars. Senora Elvira Machado -estranged from her husband for the past five years-was escorted with other members of the fallen Dictator's family to his gunboat-yacht, the Juan B. Zayas, which carried them safely to Key West...
...since Queen Victoria sailed in, nearly 50 years ago. On that occasion Victoria praised the plush carpet run out for her and the city fathers made the grievous social blunder of sending it to her as a souvenir. Last week a more tolerant sovereign was aboard the black steam yacht Victoria & Albert that slipped between green flats and gravel scarps up Southampton Water. It steamed past the claw, past the great moored ocean liners packed for the day with sightseers, past the Empress of Britain loaded with schoolchildren, past massed choirs singing "Rule Britannia." It sailed toward a great spur...
...King's yacht steamed last week through the open gate, breaking a red, white and blue ribbon, but the caisson did not drop behind it. The King in his Admiral-of-the-Fleet uniform led Queen Mary and the Duke & Duchess of York down the gangway to a royal box on the quay. He made a speech calling the dry dock a good thing. Chairman Gerald...
...Stephens brothers learned to sail off Barnstable, Cape Cod. They got their father, who owns a coal business in The Bronx, so interested in the sport that he became a vice-commodore of the Larchmont Yacht Club. Olin left M. I. T. after one year to help start, with a friend not much older than himself, the firm of Sparkman & Stephens, naval architects. Roderick got a job in a shipyard. Since Olin had the Dorade built from his own specifications in 1930, both of them have spent almost as much time on the water as at work. Consequently the Dorade...