Word: sloop
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...August, the 28-foot lifeboat, sloop-rigged, christened the Wing On, was loaded to the gunwales with diving gear, radio receiving set, bedding, food supplies. The Conlys left Patsy with Delton's sister. The Thompsons left a two-year-old daughter and infant son with grandparents...
...miracle, Ripley changed the pace of his Believe It Or Not show, abandoned hearts & flowers to hold radio's first network fur auction. Purpose of the auction was to raise funds for four Norwegians who fled from their Nazi-controlled homeland last July in a 38-ft. pilot sloop, pulled into New York City 54 days later with no assets save their boat and a platina...
...November 1861, when the U. S. Civil War was just getting going. Captain Charles Wilkes of the Union Navy, commanding the screw sloop San Jacinto, fired a shot across the bows of the British Royal Mail packet Trent as she steamed along the Bahama Channel. The Trent hove to and, under the San Jacinto's guns, surrendered to a U. S. boarding party the persons of James Murray Mason and John Slidell, commissioners on their way to represent the Confederacy in Great Britain and France, respectively...