Word: yarmouth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three-funneled Emden put to sea. A few weeks later a cruiser flying a British flag and carrying four funnels (one of them was made of deck runners), easily mistakable for the British Yarmouth, showed up in the Indian Ocean. The counterfeiting Emden took as her first prize a Greek, loaded to the Plimsoll with coal for British ports. The Emden did not sink her but kept her by as a bunker ship to be crowded with captured crews and finally sent to Germany. A fantastic series of sinkings, captures, cripplings began. What made them particularly fantastic was the gallantry...
Lutine herself, 32-gun pride of the British Navy, which sailed Oct. 9, 1799, from Yarmouth Roads, laden with gold ingots worth $10,000,000. Some of the gold was to pay off the English army fighting the French in Holland; the rest was to soothe a banking panic in Hamburg. Half her cargo was insured with Lloyd's. In the North Sea a storm hit her. With bare poles she ran before the wind, struck on the island of Terschelling at the mouth of the Zuider Zee, and sank in 50 feet of water...
Excursion (by Victor Wolfson; John C. Wilson, producer) is the log of the S. S. Happiness, Obediah Rich, commanding. He and his vessel had grown old together and were both soon to be decommissioned. So he summoned his elder brother down from Yarmouth, got his passengers aboard, tooted his whistle and on a fine Sunday morning, with the sun high in the sky, Obediah (Whitford Kane) and the Happiness set out for their last cruise from Manhattan's 125th Street to Coney Island...
Young Blake (Freddie Bartholomew), wharf-rat nephew of a Yarmouth ginshop hostess, and young Nelson (Douglas Scott) swear to take any dare proposed by the other. When they overhear a captain plotting to scuttle his ship after removing its cargo of gold, they agree to run away from home together to carry the news to Lloyd's. Nelson breaks the pact to go to sea as a midshipman on his uncle's man-o'-war. Blake goes alone to London, where a chimney sweep (D'Arcy Corrigan) directs him to Lloyd's coffee house...
...Gloucester, Mass., newshawks disovered 3-year-old Joseph Randazza, 146 lb. 4 ft., 6 in. In Yarmouth, England was found 4-year-old Leslie Bowles, 154 lb. Said Leslie's father: "He can sing and talk as well." Blurted playmates of Joseph: "Joe doesn't play. He fights...