A Long Fight Settled in That Way. GOOD SITE IN INDIA BASIN WORK OF CONSTRUCTION TO BE BEGUN AT ONCE. The British Ship Talus and the Bark Ceylon Meet in Collision — Sailing of the Tansport Roanoke. February 27, 1899 – Another set of marine ways are to be built in San Francisco …
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Came Here in a Schooner Via the Straits of Magellan. Captain Blackburn’s Terrible Experience in an Open Boat at Sea. His Hands and Feet Were Frozen So His Fingers and Toes Had to Be Amputated. February 24, 1898 – A party of Klondikers arrived from Gloucester, Mass., on the schooner Hattie I. Phillips …
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Russian plan to locate and raise the wreck of schooner USS Jeannette in Arctic waters 23 February 2015 – By Olga Gertcyk – The 19th century vessel – formerly the Royal Navy’s HMS Pandora – sank as Americans raced to be first to North Pole. Now a Siberian adventurer is planning to find …
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WRECK OF THE JAMES E. BAYLES – (February 22 1899) The good ship sailed from Tuspan, the schooner, James E. Bayles; There, in the sunny Southland, she spread her homeward sails, And, heading for the Northland, she braved a hurricane That tore her sails to atoms and wrecked her on the main. She …
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TALL SHIP DOCKS AT KING HARBOR TALL SHIP – “LYNX” VISITS REDONDO BEACH King Harbor (Redondo Beach), CA: On February 21, 2008 – All law-abiding and loyal citizens are urged to be vigilant and alert to the presence on your coast of the Weatherly, fast, and heavily arm’d Clipper Schooner Lynx. The King …
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