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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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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 …

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