repeatedly butting into or bumping against the scow to dislodge the reluctant material. As the unloading usually occurs at night and far but at sea, often in heavy weather, and as the captain ...

According to a press release from the Undersea Research Associates, the scow-schooner C.R. Truax was built in 1876 in Trenton, Michigan, for C.W. Truax, the son of a prosperous merchant captain ...