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Last seen on: LA Times Crossword, Sat, May 27, 2023
Random information on the term “Vigilant”:
Vigilant was a Baltimore schooner, possibly originally launched in 1794 as Nonsuch. She appeared in the Danish West Indies as Vigilant from 1824. She carried the mail and passenger traffic between St. Croix and St. Thomas in the 19th and the first decade of the 20th century. A storm sank Vigilant on 12 September 1928.
In her early career she carried flour and cotton down to the West Indies and returned to Baltimore with coffee and sugar. Captain Thomas Boyle commanded her in 1803–1804 under the American flag.[citation needed][a]
Circa 1824 Nonsuch was sold to Danish West Indies’ authorities, who renamed her Vigilant and used her for coast guard duties. Most famously, while under the command of Danish Captain Irmminger, with thirty soldiers on board, she captured a Spanish pirate ship that had been cruising and harassing merchant vessels in the narrow passage between St. Thomas and Puerto Rico.
After her coast guard service, Vigilant became a mail and passenger ship. In the late 1800s she would depart St. Thomas twice a week for a five-to-six hour passage to St. Croix. She had many private owners, until the Government of the Danish West Indies purchased her.
Random information on the term “ALERT”:
Alertness is the state of active attention by high sensory awareness such as being watchful and prompt to meet danger or emergency, or being quick to perceive and act. It is related to psychology as well as to physiology. A lack of alertness is a symptom of a number of conditions, including narcolepsy, attention deficit disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, Addison’s disease, or sleep deprivation. Pronounced lack of alertness can be graded as an altered level of consciousness. States with low levels of alertness include drowsiness.
The word is formed from “alert”, which comes from the Italian “all’erta” (on the watch, literally, on the height; 1618).
Wakefulness refers mainly to differences between the sleep and the wake state, including for modulation or stimulation of these pathways, and vigilance refers to sustained alertness and concentration but both terms are sometimes used synonymously with alertness.
People who have to be alert during their jobs, such as air traffic controllers or pilots, often face challenges maintaining their alertness. Research shows that for people “…engaged in attention-intensive and monotonous tasks, retaining a constant level of alertness is rare if not impossible.” If people employed in safety-related or transportation jobs have lapses in alertness, this “may lead to severe consequences in occupations ranging from air traffic control to monitoring of nuclear power plants.”