reliance

Given the circumstances, it's amazing how jolly everyone looks in the photo.

John Schrank said that the assassinated William McKinley appeared to him in his dream, sitting up in his coffin, and pointed to Theodore Roosevelt as the man who had murdered him, and directed Schrank to avenge his death.

query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C00E2D6133CE633A...

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21261

Looks like the cops here weren't exactly cross with Schrank the Crank.

NC-14A Reliance, christened November 6, 1931, was a twin-motored ship of 112,000 cubic feet with two 110 h. p. Warner Scarab motors. It was 140 feet in length, 40 feet in diameter, 100 gal. fuel capacity, speed was 60 mph. It had a cruising range of 450 miles and could carry six passengers. Hugh Allen, The Story of the Airship (Akron, Ohio: Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 1932), pp. 22-23, 95.

caption reads: Reliance V worlds champion....(unreadable) built by smith ryan co, Algonac, Mich photo taken nov 27th, in a 40 mile gale Date stamp is Feb 14, 1912 otherwise know as baby reliance v, she was a "hydroplane" racer, this being the smallest one, as the racers were placed in classes depending on their length, she raced several years for Commodore J S Blackton

Nudecowboy: thanks for alerting us to the fuller caption information. We've taken a second look ourselves and think the unreadable text reads: hydroplan[e]. We'll update our source data to include the fuller title, fix the date, then reload the description.