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For most of his life he resided in the San Francisco, California, area, except for those times when he shipped out as a member of the crew on a freighter, searching for new material. [ 2 ] Pease decided to become a writer while in the sixth grade , [ 3 ] and he wrote his first short story in 1907 during that school year. [ 4 ]
At the age of 18 he was apprenticed aboard the Moshulu, joining the ship in Belfast in 1938 and sailing to Port Lincoln in Australia with a load of ballast stone in 82 days, a good passage for a windjammer. Moshulu took 4,875 tons of bagged grain on board in Port Victoria and began her return voyage to Ireland in the spring of 1939. She reached ...
John McPhee's Looking for a Ship (1990), a report on the state of the US Merchant Marine, centers on a South American voyage on the Lykes Brothers freighter Stella Lykes. The shipping company is referred to in the Tom Clancy novel Red Storm Rising.
Contract talks covering 45,000 dockworkers on the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts are set to restart on Tuesday in a labor dispute that will help set the pace of automation at ports stretching from ...
Today, the world's bulk carrier fleet includes 6,225 ships of over 10,000 DWT, and represent 40% of all ships in terms of tonnage and 39.4% in terms of vessels. [33] Including smaller ships, bulk carriers have a total combined capacity of almost 346 million DWT. [ 37 ]
The life raft was tossed clear of the wreck when the bow section sank. [41] The four crew members who reached the life raft were repeatedly thrown off by the massive waves and only two survived. [42] The crew on the German cargo vessel Christian Sartori witnessed the sinking through their binoculars. They saw the lights go out on the fore part ...
In modern times, computer software can greatly simplify the passage planning process and ensure that nothing important is overlooked. [8] Passage planning software may include functions such as waypoint management, distance calculators, tide and tidal current predictors, celestial navigational calculators, consumables estimators for fuel, oil, water, and stores, and other useful applications.
Chimpanzee Ham, who flew America's first suborbital space flight on Jan. 31, 1961, toasts NASA's anniversary by sampling a Skylab space drink on Oct. 01, 1973 at the National Zoo in Washington D.C.