Our family bond with Stephens is Vim - the 12 meter sloop. Built for Vanderbilt in 1939 at Henry Nevins yard on City Island, she was a contender in the 1957 America's Cup revival. Its owner was John Mathews, for whose stevedoring company my grandfather Capt. George Washington Conk (U.S. Army, Ret.) worked on the Brooklyn waterfront. His friend Sven Petersen was charged with maintenance. Bus Mosbacher, later JFK's protocol chief, was the skipper.
Four Ships Trapped by Key Bridge Collapse Depart Baltimore
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By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES, April 26 (Reuters) – Four cargo ships, stuck
for about a month at the Port of Baltimore by the ruins of the collapsed
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