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...Friends, admirers, bankers offered to help. But Sir Walter Scott, bankrupt, widowed and ill, pitched in and for six years worked to pay off his debts. He was only half successful, but later royalties wiped out the remainder. In the last year of his life. Scott was given a vessel by the British Government in which to seek health cruising the Mediterranean. Soon he gave it up, traveled across Europe to die at 61 in Abbotsford, 100 years ago last week...
When U. S. Lines took over its fleet from the Government in 1929, President Paul Wadsworth Chapman outlined a building program on money borrowed from the Shipping Board under the Jones-White Act. The Manhattan was the first transatlantic passenger vessel built under the new program, the first built in the U. S. since 1897. A day less than one year after the keel was laid the vessel was launched, christened Manhattan by Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt...
...masted through the Reich. It was Germany's greatest naval disaster since the War. The Niobe was originally a Norwegian four-masted barque, captured by German commerce raiders at the beginning of the War. Re-rigged, commissioned as a training ship in 1922, she was the first commissioned vessel of Germany's post-War navy. In Chicago last week reporters wrote down messages of condolence from her first German commander, the much publicized lecturer, onetime commerce raider, strong-fisted Count Felix von Luckner...
...trademarks. And its president is known to the industry as a good man to have at any wheel. He is Thomas James Carroll, 64, whose life has been close to that of Gloucester and its fishermen. His father, an Irish sea-captain, settled in Gloucester as a fisherman. His vessel was lost with all hands. When "Tom Carroll" was ii his brother's schooner also went down with all hands in a terrific storm off the Georges Banks that took 140 lives from the fleet...
...fishermen were slapping their thighs and squirting tobacco juice with relish at the goings-on in Gorton-Pew. The efficiency experts drew up a schedule of arrivals and departures for the fleet, overlooking the matter of tides, fogs, running seas. They even set the number of fish each vessel should return with. In two years they lost $2,700,000 of the company's money and in 1923 the company was reorganized with Mr. Car roll back as general manager. Two years later he became president as well. The following year the company paid a $2 dividend...