Word: sailormen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...makes the North Pole attractive to compass needles. A 20th-century anachronism, the Research is a wooden sailing vessel, nonmagnetic in every possible detail. Her hull is of teak; bolts, girders and anchor chain of bronze; rigging will be of nonmagnetic alloys. If her sailors wish, as all good sailormen do, to carry jack-knives, the knives must be of nonmagnetic metal...
Slave Ship does not touch upon the sporting background of the bark that plays its title role, but records some of the more sombre legends which sailormen repeated about The Wanderer. She had been launched in blood, killing a workman who was pinioned on the ways as she slid down into the water. Fire and plague beset her voyages. Slaving, outlawed by international agreement in 1814, was practiced in the middle of the century by a few renegade skippers who risked hanging for the $600 to $1,000 per head they could obtain...
...WITHOUT WOMEN-Sailormen trapped in a sunken submarine...