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...gravely wound. Thirty-three members of the A.F.L. Seafarers International Union were sneaked aboard the grey and white freighter Steel Flyer. Non-union stevedores had loaded 6,200 tons of raw sugar aboard it. At 9:10 p.m. one night, to the chagrin of the strikers, it sailed away, bound for the East Coast of the U.S., where Joe Ryan's A.F.L. longshoremen-long sworn enemies of Harry Bridges-would willingly unload it. It was the first tied-up ship to sail since the strike began three months...
...last week, Kerans decided to run the Communist gauntlet. At 10:12 p.m. he gave the order to sail. The Amethyst nosed out into the channel astern of a Yangtze freighter. At 10:23 p.m., the Communists discovered the Amethyst in motion when the steamer ahead of her was challenged by flares from the shore. The Communists opened up with heavy artillery and machine-gun fire. The Amethyst returned the fire. In London, the Admiralty received a message from the Amethyst: "Am under heavy fire and hit." Ten minutes later she messaged: "Still under heavy fire." At midnight the moon...
...most of the outport fishing hamlets or to Labrador, the sea is the main highway. Sturdy little coastal boats and black-hulled schooners sail in & out of deep fiords and past bold escarpments...
Competitive sailing, as far as Harvard is concerned, reaches its grand climax this weekend in New London. The two Crimson boats, which came in second last Saturday in the eliminations, sail in the New England Championship regatta...
Competitive sailing, as far as Harvard is concerned, reaches its grand climax this weekend in New London. The two Crimson boats, who came in second last Saturday in the eliminations, sail in the New England Championship regatta...