Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...will have charge of the glider sections and Professor E. R. Markham will conduct the work on the gas engines. No technical knowledge will be required of those joining the working sections and members will be advanced purely on grounds of interest and efficiency. By a special arrangement pilot licenses will be granted to those fulfilling certain requirements...
Connor, "Sky Pilot...
...first of numerous disasters along the coast, describing vividly the storm of November, 1898, in which the life-saving crews had not only to perform their usual duty of saving shipwrecked crews, but also to rescue cottagers, whose homes were demolished. In that storm the entire crew of the pilot-boat "Columbia" was lost, and the wreck is now on exhibition at Scituate. Mr. Peck showed numerous pictures of surf to demonstrate the dangers undergone in launching life-boats. One of the slides was a fac-simile of a letter written by the keeper of Minot's Ledge lighthouse, stating...
...Tripolitans floated the frigate, raised the guns, and the refitted ship lay under the guns of the forts when the "Intrepid", a small ketch, brought in by night about 75 men led by Lieutenant Decatur and a Sicilian pilot. The frigate was boarded and burnt, and the ketch escaped under fire of the harbor guns...
Three hundred Seniors loosed from their mortar boards and scholastic gowns, were successfully led to Nantasket Point yesterday by R. H. Oveson, Chaperone, and J. H. Lathrop, Sky Pilot...