WITH the completion of the Panama Canal at a comparatively early date, and the growing and natural desire of America to possess a mercantile marine of her own, it is safe to prophesy that, before ...
Captain Richard Woodman, merchant seaman and writer of histories and the Nathaniel Drinkwater novels
Woodman: went to sea in 1960 as a midshipman with Liverpool-based Alfred Holt & Co, the Blue Funnel Line Captain Richard Woodman, who has died aged 80, was a gifted and adventurous seaman, a prolific ...
The U.S. Maritime Commission needs 40,000 more seamen and 10,000 more licensed officers to man the 1,200 new merchantmen which will slide down the ways in 1942-43. It will have to look alive to find ...
Jack Beritzhoff will be 97 next month — a man with a ton of stories about his days at sea in two wars, as a businessman in San Francisco and in his home high in the hills of Marin. “It was a life of ...
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Merchant Seaman Thomas D. Dailey was whooping it up in a New Orleans saloon when he fell off a barstool and broke his leg. Whom did he sue? The saloon? The distiller whose spirits decked him? Not ...
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