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...Bedford, May 2--The 108-foot British oil screw vessel, Accuracy, was detained by Coast Guards at New Bedford today while Customs Officials and guardsmen hunted 3000 cases of smuggled liquor, valued at $50,000, reported landed and concealed somewhere between Nonquitt and Smith's Neck during the night...
...love with a young man who, since he is travelling with his family, does not have a private cabin, flees with him on a rough night to the bow of the ship, and there, on the deck, surrenders. The "Ile-de-France" must be a rather curiously constructed vessel if it does not provide a full view of figures on the forecastle head to the mates, the watch and the quartermasters on the bridge; if the night had been so dark that the visibility did not permit this, a look-out would certainly have been standing, polite but immovable, beside...
When firing from a moving ship, both drift of projectile and drift of vessel must be taken into account...
...Then I had a doctor put a lateral and horizontal incision in my neck. It was an inch-and-a-half-long cut. He then located the occipital artery in the back of my head and clamped the blood vessel...
...neither the huge (56,000 tons) Majestic nor the fast (28 knots) Mauretania, nor the proud Berengaria. Instead the red-and-gold burgee of the combined fleet's commodore flew from the main truck of a little (20,000 tons) old (1921) ship called Samaria. Only reason that vessel flew the commodore's flag was because Commodore Robert G. Malin, a quiet man, liked little ships better than big ones, liked the Samaria best...