Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 5, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday August 5, 1963 ship recalls Days of rum and pirates Vancouver up her clean fast lines have been cashed by the Bering sea. She has run into the ports of Northern Japan and Russia and4i As hunted the alaskan fjords and the Bays and inlets of Brit ish Columbia. She has rolled quietly in the fog of san Francisco Bay her Home town and hammered her Bow in the open a the Black Bandanna but Many names have been painted on her curving Schooner armoured she is bows and lettered across her yacht like Stern. Her hold knew bloody cargo during the sealing Slaughters of 1890s. Later illicit liquor below decks As she ran lights from United Revenue cutters. Her decks have known gang asters and police honest tugboat Crews and pirates. She has passed from sail to steam to diesel. And when the Southwest trades blow next summer she will run with them again under sail for the Southern seas. Her present owner is Ian Todd author and reporter from Perth Scotland. He rescued her from the Breakers for Todd renamed her Black ban Danna after his first Book a tale of derring do set in the Mediterranean during the time of Napoleon. She was built in Benicia on san Francisco Bay in he says. She has a double Hull eight inches of California red Wood. Her ribs Are Oak. She was Schooner rigged and was launched As the it was As the Royal that she went sealing. Later the 82-foot Day the largest sailing Hull on the Pacific a police boat patrolling the Waters around Alcatraz. Ironically enough when a Vancouver Syndicate purchased her from the san Francisco police it was for use As a rum today the Black Bandanna lies at the wharf of Matsumoto shipyards Only a few Miles Goren on Bridge by Charles Goren Drom the area where during the 30s, she loaded booze at illicit distilleries for running to United states ports during prohibition. Outran patrols Norman hacking Marine editor of the Vancouver province who will navigate her when she sails out next summer says her Fine lines give her a Hull Speed of 14 knots. When the wind favored the Schooner her heels would prove too fast for Many . Coast guard patrol boats. She is reputed to have done 27 rum running trips but was never when prohibition ended became the steam tug Prosper Active. In january 1937, while towing a Boom of logs North she was boarded by a Large party of United states seamen near Whitbey Island in deception pass. The seamen were on strike. The Prospera Tive Lay. Along Side her Tow the watch fires of the pickets burning on the Beach As Washington and Ottawa rang with charges of piracy. Eventually the tug was Al Lowed to sail on without her logs. In 1960, she was stripped Al. Most to the waterline and con the tin Choc Oil Tribune answers to Bridge quiz q. South you hold 052 the bidding has proceeded North East South West 1 2 v pass pass double pass what do you bid now Spades. You had almost in tile first place but proper 3y elected to pass. Now that your partner has shown a very Strong hand it is your duty to state that you had almost a raise by bidding one More Spade than is necessary. A Mere return to two Spades might denote nothing at All. Q. Third hand after two passes you hold oj86532 what is your opening bid heart. While normally a card suit should be bid before five card suit we would make an exception in this Case because of i the weakness of the diamonds. We t consider a bad six card suit As the equivalent of a five card suit and would therefore open with the major. To q. South you hold q j 2 j 5 0 a k q 6 3 the bidding has proceeded West North East f pass 1 pass what do you bid now r Spades forcing to game. I. In support of hearts your hand is Worth 22 Points and with a fit Al ready indicated you should insist a upon a game contract. A bid of r Only one Spade could be passed by responder. Q. South you hold v72 oq985 the bidding has proceeded North East South West 1 pass 2 a pass 3 pass what do you bid now no Trump. You have maximum values for your raise and should therefore accept partner s game invitation. With your balanced hand containing strength in the minors it might be easier to reach for nine to icks instead of 10. If partner s holding is very unbalanced he May still return to Spades. Q. South you hold 4a109543 the bidding has proceeded South West pass pass North East 2 pass 4 a pass do you bid now recommend strange bid Here namely five diamonds and we Are aware that the More Ortho Dox Call would be five clubs. It seems to us that showing the club Ace would not necessarily solve partner s problem whereas the five Diamond bid would put him at ease As to his losing diamonds. Q. Opens with two no Trump and you hold what is your response direct raise to six no Trump would not do Justice to your hold ing. If partner has a maximum two no Trump bid a grand slam contract would be a sound investment. The accepted manner to uncover such a state of facts is to make a Tempo Riding bid of three diamonds to followed by a bid of six no Trump. Partner should bid seven if he Hai a maximum. Q. South you hold 4j964 vkj9 okj987 the bidding has proceeded East South West North pass pass 1 a double pass 2 0 pass 3 pass what do you bid now has shown a very Strong hand by doubling and then bidding at the level of three. As your hand containing nine Points is just a Jack Short of an average hand you should therefore feel optimistic about a game and the recommended Call is three no Trump. Partner should realize your Spade stopper is doubtful since you did not try no Trump on Tjie first round. Q. South you hold a a 10 9 8 5 ;