Word: schooners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME [Nov. 20] you carried an item concerning the voyage of my schooner Liberty to Pitcairn Island and Tahiti...
...Capt. Miller to destroy the wireless station on Keeling Island (English), did just that and was caught ashore when the cruiser Sidney engaged and sank the Emden. Contrary to your romantic "jungle hiding," the landing party which was, of course, now in command of the island, outfitted the schooner Ayesha (97 tons) and, in spite of warnings by the Englishmen on the island about her unseaworthiness, set sail in her shortly after the battle. The boat had accommodations for a crew of five men and the captain. They were 56. They sailed her, rotten as she was, I believe about...
From the sacred lawn of the Royal Yacht Squadron, most venerable and exclusive yacht club in the world, six generations of Britons have watched the zigzag tacks of yachting history. It was there in 1851 that the U. S. schooner America astonished British autocrats by winning the brand new One Hundred Guineas Cup, first international yachting trophy ever put up-which later became known as the America's Cup and caused Britons to spend some $30,000,000 trying to get it back. It was there that the late King George's magnificent Britannia raced every summer...
Last winter he planned to sail a Chinese junk across the Pacific to San Francisco and the Fair. Just before he sailed he wrote: "I want to steer her straight into the Golden Gate, where a long time ago I first saw a whitesailed schooner and first heard the call...
...Captain Austin Eugene Lathrop, a building contractor turned shipmaster, sailed to Alaska from Puget Sound in the small steam schooner L. J. Perry. He sailed right into the Klondike gold rush. Instead of turning to pick & pan, however, Cap Lathrop stuck to his bridge and toted prospectors and their pokes. Nowadays, in rich Central Alaska, stout, furrowed, 73-year-old Cap Lathrop is the head man. He owns a big salmon cannery, a bank, a coal mine, an airplane hangar, three cinemas, two newspapers, a general store, apartment houses, and is a member of the Board of Regents of University...