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On Monday 31 October 1927, the steamship freighter Margaret Dollar (built in 1921 as the S.S. Celestial and renamed in 1922) [1] was transiting off the Washington coast when, off Cape Flattery, it came upon a drifting Japanese fore-and-aft rigged fishing boat, the Ryo Yei Maru, a sturdy vessel of fairly recent construction.
A smack was a traditional fishing boat used off the coast of Britain and the Atlantic coast of America for most of the 19th century and, in small numbers, up to the Second World War. Many larger smacks were originally cutter -rigged sailing boats until about 1865, when smacks had become so large that cutter main booms were unhandy.
She is the last known surviving American well smack. This type of boat is also termed a sloop smack or Noank smack. The Noank design was imitated in other regions of the United States. Emma C. Berry was built in 1866 at the Palmer Shipyards in Noank, Connecticut by James A. Latham. [3] [4] The boat was named for Captain John Henry Berry's ...
The Ironton’s captain and six sailors clambered into a lifeboat but it was dragged to the bottom before they could detach it from the ship in a 1894 disaster. Long-lost ship found in Lake Huron ...
A 14-year-old American boy missing for three days after he walked away from a Caribbean Princess cruise ship at a German port was found safe Saturday, police and a family member said.
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The origins of the name are unclear, and many theories have been put forth, including an actual David Jones, who was a pirate on the Indian Ocean in the 1630s; [53] a pub owner who kidnapped sailors and then dumped them onto any passing ship; [54] the incompetent Duffer Jones, a notoriously myopic sailor who often found himself over-board; [55 ...
A Fish Out of Water is a 1961 American children's book written by Helen Palmer Geisel (credited as Helen Palmer) and illustrated by P. D. Eastman.The book is based on a short story by Palmer's husband Theodor Geisel (), "Gustav, the Goldfish", which was published with his own illustrations in Redbook magazine in June 1950.