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Lutine herself, 32-gun pride of the British Navy, which sailed Oct. 9, 1799, from Yarmouth Roads, laden with gold ingots worth $10,000,000. Some of the gold was to pay off the English army fighting the French in Holland; the rest was to soothe a banking panic in Hamburg. Half her cargo was insured with Lloyd's. In the North Sea a storm hit her. With bare poles she ran before the wind, struck on the island of Terschelling at the mouth of the Zuider Zee, and sank in 50 feet of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Sunken Treasure | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Excursion (by Victor Wolfson; John C. Wilson, producer) is the log of the S. S. Happiness, Obediah Rich, commanding. He and his vessel had grown old together and were both soon to be decommissioned. So he summoned his elder brother down from Yarmouth, got his passengers aboard, tooted his whistle and on a fine Sunday morning, with the sun high in the sky, Obediah (Whitford Kane) and the Happiness set out for their last cruise from Manhattan's 125th Street to Coney Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 19, 1937 | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

Young Blake (Freddie Bartholomew), wharf-rat nephew of a Yarmouth ginshop hostess, and young Nelson (Douglas Scott) swear to take any dare proposed by the other. When they overhear a captain plotting to scuttle his ship after removing its cargo of gold, they agree to run away from home together to carry the news to Lloyd's. Nelson breaks the pact to go to sea as a midshipman on his uncle's man-o'-war. Blake goes alone to London, where a chimney sweep (D'Arcy Corrigan) directs him to Lloyd's coffee house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...Gloucester, Mass., newshawks disovered 3-year-old Joseph Randazza, 146 lb. 4 ft., 6 in. In Yarmouth, England was found 4-year-old Leslie Bowles, 154 lb. Said Leslie's father: "He can sing and talk as well." Blurted playmates of Joseph: "Joe doesn't play. He fights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Clerk | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Keith R. Porter, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, as Austin Teaching fellow of Biology until September...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVEN APPOINTMENTS TO FACULTY ARE ANNOUNCED | 1/8/1936 | See Source »

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