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On this Day ( December 8) – Ship Fled 3,000 Miles to Escape Japanese

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“What ship are you”? and was dumfounded when a bearded and deeply tanned man standing near the schooner’s wheel responded, “USS Lanikai, from Manila.” The pilot was equally surprised that the weather-beaten and somewhat dilapidated ship was apparently part of the U.S. Navy, and that she had safely navigated more than 3,000 miles of Japanese-dominated …

On this Day December 7 – Schooner Casco Has Adventurous Career

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Schooner Casco Has Adventurous Career The Sacramento Union – NOME, Alaska, Sunday Nov. 7, 1919 (by mail) — The romantic and adventurous career of the old Robert Stevenson schooner Casco as a yacht, smuggler, sealer and gold seeker came to an end when she ploughed on to the rocks at King island, north of Nome, …

On this Day (December 6) – Murder on the High Seas

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“Bloody Story of the Mutiny on the Nineroahiti.” “Trial of the Fiends Who Seized a Vessel in the South Pacific.” London, Dec. 5, 1893 — A dispatch to the Standard from Paris, referring to the trial of tbe Pacific piracy case at Brest, gives the following details of the mutiny on the Nineroahiti: On the …

On this Day (December 5) – Coronet Observes the Eclipse

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“CORONET WILL OBSERVE THE ECLIPSE.” “Mission of a Party of American Scientist to Japan.” NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 4, 1895 – D. Willis James’ schooner yacht Coronet, which is to take a party of ten scientists, headed by Professor D. P. Todd of Amherst College, to Japan, to observe a total eclipse of the …

On this Day (December 4) – 1,100 Christmas Trees Shipped

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“1,100 CHRISTMAS TREES SHIPPED FROM NORTH” “Los Angeles to Get Greenery From Oregon’ Forests” PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 3, 1910 — One thousand Christmas trees from the forests of Oregon, shipped to Los Angeles, were lashed to the deckload of lumber on the steam schooner Yosemite, Captain Reiner, which sailed today. The trees represent one of …