March 30, 2015 by Mike Schuler – The U.S. Coast Guard rescued all nine crewmembers from the Canadian tall ship Liana’s Ransom 58 miles east of Gloucester, Massachusetts on Monday. As of Monday night the vessel was abandoned but being tracked by the Coast Guard. According to the USCG, watchstanders at the Sector Boston Command …
March 28, 2015 (San Diego) – Harken back to the golden age of sail aboard the two-masted schooner Bill of Rights as we compete in the America’s Schooner Cup Charity Regatta! The Silver Gate Yacht Club hosts the 27th running of the Regatta in San Diego Bay. We will depart from the Kona Kai marina …
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WOMEN TO RACE FOR AMERICA’S CUP Congressional Record: March 24, 1994 – Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, I would like to bring to the attention of the Senate and to the entire Nation the historic achievement of the 16-member all-female team that will race next year for the America’s Cup in San Diego. It is …
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Three Schooner and a Sailing Ship . Lay on Virginia and North Carolina Coasts NORFOLK. Va., March 23, 1906 — Four Failing vessels lay wrecked on the Virginia and. North Carolina coasts today. These vessels are the three-masted schooner Raymond T. Maull, Captain Higbee, from Georgia to Philadelphia, which lies beached on Gull …
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BOTANIST KOREN SAFE IN NOME AFTER WRECK OF SCHOONER IN ICE All Equipment, Furs and Specimens Taken by Norwegian Expedition Lost NOME, Alaska. March 22, 1913 – Johan Koren, the Norwegian botanist, whose power schooner. Kittie Wake, and the American whaling schooner Morris were crushed to bits by the ice at Cape Serge, …