Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...territories left in the world, was a question which his fleeing Government had no time to answer. Borkowski waited-until finally orders came from the New York Consulate. He was to relinquish his command to Chief Officer Franciszek Szudzinski and go by train to Halifax. The liner was to sail immediately for the same city under her new captain...
...that the crew rebelled. They wanted Captain Borkowski or nobody. They did not want to go to Canada and carry munitions to Britain. Moreover, there was some back pay due them. They would not sail. Police were summoned...
...Manhattan dock one morning last week, the U. S. Lines' passenger ship, American Trader, had her cargo stowed, her gangplank up, all else in readiness to sail with 53 passengers to Europe. Once safely across the Atlantic, the American Trader, under special orders from the U. S. State Department, was to take aboard stranded U.S. citizens, get them home with all speed...
...this indicated that the course was clearly charted. Avoid Scylla, the Russian Army, and Charybdis, the U. S. Fleet, and sail straight through to victory in China. Big news of the week was getting past Scylla...
When her submarine-shy crew last week refused to sail the Greek freighter Thermoni home from Seattle, Wash., its captain received an odd request. Fifteen Polish, German and British seamen, stranded in Seattle since the outbreak of World War II, and spoiling to get home to join their armies, had agreed on a working armistice, wanted to man the Thermoni and head her for Europe. British Seaman Charles Home, whose father died fighting in World War I, hopefully suggested that, once in Liverpool, his German mates might be permitted to proceed unmolested...