Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...close to the race that they put in danger the freshman boat which was just in front of them. Besides this, two of the tugs that kept fouling each other added to the danger. This trouble was caused by the men who stood up in front of the pilot house and made it impossible for the pilots to see where they were going. A little more forethought will make such cause of complaint unnecessary in the future. The other thing was more serious. The '90 boat, when it got the lead, steered into '89 water, and for over three-quarters...
...Francis Wallace Knowles, "The Pilot's Story."- W. D. Howells...
...Francis Wallace Knowles, "The Pilot's Story." - W. D. Howells...
...rear windows on Beacon street, and interested spectators chose favorable positions near the finish and waited. At a quarter of one, three tugs were moored at the drawbridge and rapidly filled. One bore a huge green and white banner, and an enthusiastic body of sophomores clustered on its pilot box; the second was jammed with noisy and excited freshmen, and covered with red and white bunting, and the referee's tug contained a mixture of the sedate of all classes, and a few ladies. The tugs moved up the course and reached the Brookline bridge at twenty minutes past...
Eight persons were killed and seven injured by the explosion of the steamer Pilot near Lakeville, Cal., yesterday morning...