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...honor to Lafayette. But Lafayette had to steal away. The French Government tried to arrest him while he was going. He had undertaken to to fit out a ship. He was deprived of the opportunity of taking it and stole away like a criminal from the French Government which was so deeply in sympathy with America...
Monarch with their barking 6-inch guns; but the condemned ship's 11-inch steel gun protection withstood bravely the clattering shells...
...there was a Captain Benjamin Leavitt, who was not content that this paltry 30 fathoms should be set as a lower limit to his activities. In 1922 he bought a ship, the Blakely, from the Shipping Board. He fitted her out for diving and salvaging, and laid in an equipment of patent diving suits of manganese bronze (which resists salt water corrosion), with flexible parts of interlocking copper tubing and ball bearing joints, with portable air equipment, carrying a four-hour supply of oxygen and a telephone...
...good ship Teno churned its way through many a mile of water until it finally glided silently alongside a dock that was in Manhattan...
...year 1925 will prove the 255th birthday of the Hudson's Bay Co.- the oldest commercial company in the world. This ancient concern was organized in 1670, after Pierre Radisson, French promoter, had persuaded Charles II of England to send a small 50-ton ship, the Nonsuch, across the Atlantic to investigate the financial possibilities of Canada. The royal charter issued to the Company, still preserved in London, presented it with about a third of modern Canada. During the next 200 years, the "Company of Merchant Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay" conducted a government...