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...difficulty even getting into Queenstown. The storm reached its climax two days later, when the waves were 60 feet high, and the wind had a velocity of 110 miles an hour. . . . The leak probably was the result of a rivet being worked loose by the laboring of the vessel. It was found there was no danger to the vessel and that only one of the four oil tanks was affected. I put the vessel's head toward Halifax and succeeded in coming within 19 miles of the port when our three tanks were finished...
...ship bound for Boston steamed into port. Leys was determined to board it for the homeward trip. He got a job helping to unload, and found that his chances of shipping aboard the vessel were very slender, as it already had one man, a stowaway, in irons to prevent his slipping ashore. There was nothing to do but wait for the next ship, while Plumer, wherever he might have been, made his way toward the goal...
...invite your attention, please, to an apparent error on p. 21 (TIME, Nov. 29), under the heading MEDICINE, subhead "At Sea." The caption "USS" means "United States Ship" and is applied ONLY to ships of the Navy. The caption "SS" means "Steamship" and is used when referring to merchant vessels. Neither the Eastern Glade nor the West Calumb is a vessel of the United States Navy. The fact that the health of the crew sort of depended upon the Captain's knowledge of medicine, might create the wrong impression among civilians?fathers, mothers or other relatives of officers and enlisted...
...freeze on St. Mary's River began the last days of November (TIME, Dec. 13). That was the first time since 1880 that this channel between Lake Superior and the lower lakes had so frozen in November. Vessel owners considered they were taking no undue risks by the late voyages. Underwriters issued regular insurance until midnight of Nov. 30 and special insurance to midnight of Dec. 12, to endure until vessels reached their ports. The Government did not officially close the river locks at the "Soo" until Dec. 16. As the Sainte Marie smashed the ice, sailors aboard...
Among the many interesting minor characters of the American Revolution in Philip Frenean known now principally for a few poems of questionable value, but who, during the twenty years centering upon the war, was variously employed as a newspaper editor and captain of a merchant vessel...