Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freighter. His thin-skinned warship plunged headlong into the 10,000-ton Yarmouth County, outbound at a cautious eight knots. Fifty feet of the Micmac's port bow was peeled back like the lid of a sardine can. Jagged steel ripped through the arms and legs of seamen dozing on their mess deck. Crashing steel girders pinned others to the deck...
...Very Sweet." Back in London after the war, Philip, now 6 ft. 2 in. and handsome, was one of the most popular bachelors at Mayfair parties. The Navy gave him shore duty at Corsham in Wiltshire, instructing seamen in current events and swimming. Many an evening Philip spent in the "local," The Methuen Arms, playing darts and taking good-naturedly a mild joshing from the townsmen on reports of his romance with the Princess...
Forgotten Faces. Her crew were not seamen but romantics who invested ?100 apiece in the venture. Of the ten men in her forecastle when she left Plymouth and plunged into a night of gale, only one had ever been to sea before. Soon almost all were seasick. Skipper Seligman felt a gloomy awe at his own temerity. He and the first mate, Lars, had to shout in melodramatic alarm to rouse hands to shorten sail. After the two-day gale had blown out, "faces that we had almost forgotten appeared blinking...
Even when practice had made good seamen of all the amateurs aboard the Cap Pilar, the vagaries of winds, currents and outdated charts continued to give Skipper Seligman moments of agonizing suspense. The Cap Pilar's adventures-standing off the great surf of lonely Tristan da Cunha, fleeing before the howling westerlies from the Cape of Good Hope across nearly 6,000 miles of ocean to Tasmania, delicately threading between the coral reefs of the South Seas-are fascinating reminders of the age of seamanship...
...brig Sophie, of Portland, Me., wallowed for 119 days in Atlantic gales while the sickened French passengers grew more & more scandalized at the improvidence of American seamen. Items: the captain rarely reckoned their position, the ship carried no spare sailcloth to repair the rags she sailed by, the logbook covers had to be unraveled for thread to patch the sails, food and liquor were so carelessly stowed that quantities of both were lost. Americans, observed Moreau, "rely on luck more than on anything else in making a voyage...