Yachts Yachting and Yachtsmen Fifth Installment
The narrator recalls a white skiff on Walkers Island repaired with blue calk and a makeshift mooring, a leaky craft crewed by Lou Frank and others, and a summer of coastal sailing. Lord Brassey visits in The Sunbeam, tea with Lady Brassey, and a wrecked Hesperus sparks plans for a bigger dream boat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Collins
Walkers Island
New Bedford
Jimmy
Lou
Frank
Lord Brassey
Sunbeam
Lady Brassey
Herreshoffs
Lord B
Mater
Sergeant Dupont Leads Ordnance Unit in Pacific Victory Division
Sergeant Elmer J. Dupont of Bristol Rhode Island serves with the 24th Infantry Victory Division On Mindanao his Ordnance Company maintained weapons and vehicles in combat zones The unit landed on Mindanao after the infantry assault and repaired tanks machine guns and artillery while setting up shops near Davao Gulf The crew increased truck and tractor output from twenty to forty five daily and built ten twenty ton trailers in eight days during the landing operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
24Th Infantry
Victory
Mindanao
Elmer J. Dupont
Woodstreet
Bristol
R. I
Ordnance
Pacific
New Caledonia
Manda
New Georgia
Bougainville
Philippines
Dupont
U. S
Davao Gulf
Davao
Dominick Aloi Serves Aboard USS North Carolina Off Japan
Dominick Aloi 23, electrician’s mate second class USNR, son of Nick Aloi of Bristol Rhode Island, serves aboard the USS North Carolina. The battleship sails with the Pacific Fleet under Admiral William F. Halsey to participate in the first stages of occupying the Japanese homeland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Japan
Dominick Aloi
USNR
Nick Alot
High Street
Bristol
R. I
Pacific
William F. Halsey
U.S.N
U. S
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Te Heade
Mill Pond
Sa‘lor
DeWolf Swamp
Tanyardbrook
Alves Battery Shop
Metacom Avs
State St
Pacific Victory Division
Providence
Hanley
Fountain OF Melody
Station Wean
The
James Hanley Co
Dominick Alot
Brown
Hope Street
Frank C. Brown
Prop
Bradford ST
Waldron Co
TEL
M. Stuart Barr
C. W. Weaver
E. W. Weaver
R. 1
Ralph Defelice
Constitution Street
S. of Boston
E. L. Watson CO. Inc
Weybosset Street
Charles M. Connery
Burton ST
Salvador Nunes
Mt. Hope. Ave
Robert J. McKay
G. W. Simmons
Undertaker
William Street Tel. Conn
J. A. Chartier
Warren
Woodline Avenue
West Barrington, R. L
Ulysse Forget
M. D
Main ST
R. J
Bristol District Nursing Association
Martha Graham
Hopes St
Thyra Carlson
Nigh St
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