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That it was quite possible on this night, even with a sharp lookout at the stemhead, crow's nest, and on the bridge, not to see an iceberg at this distance is shown by the evidence of Capt.

Her subtle clipper bow extended proudly from the waterline to the anchor roller on the stemhead, giving her the authoritative presence that we normally ascribe to the rugged and seaworthy North Atlantic swordfish boats.

The band also passed over a stemhead and ran to the deck, having been shaped over the head of the stem by heating and molding over a pattern.

So the new sixty-footer had a bottle of wine from the Abbott cellar broken over her brass-bound stemhead as her bows sliced into the salt water, and Nelly's clear treble chanted: "I christen thee Agua Blanco."

Soon we knew that she must be the ship of some great chief, for her broad sail was striped with red and white, and the sun gleamed and sparkled from gilding on her high stemhead, and from the gilded truck of the mast.