Rescue crews have ended their search for a British sailor who fell from a yacht in the Pacific Ocean.
He spent time as a submarine sailor for the U.S. Navy, calibrating tools as a metrologist, also as a musician and a screenwriter before becoming a novelist at age 57.
In 1999, Martin Wizner, a sailor for a Spanish team, died when a piece of equipment came loose from his boat and struck him in the head.
Manuel Rodriguez served his country for 18 years, a veteran, sailor of the year and an officer.
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During the short service the poem Lest We Forget, which was written by a sailor on watch during the initial search for the submarine, was read by Mr Allen's son Martin.
Mr Gillespie's son John, 57, told the court that his father was a former Royal Navy sailor who had been mentioned in despatches for his conduct during the World War II.
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First staged in 1921, O'Neill's play about a former prostitute reuniting with her sailor father won the Pulitzer Prize for drama the following year.
Makers hope the yacht will be a keen sailor's mega mansion on water, with room for offices kitted out with the latest in satellite technology and a classroom for the children.
Defoe fans frequently mention sailor Andrew Selkirk, an 18th-century castaway, as a model for Crusoe, although Defoe probably drew on several sources.
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The other sailor suffered minor injuries, and the rest of the crew of about a dozen people was accounted for and taken back to their dock in Alameda.
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