Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Upper Edge. Not many miles away, passengers aboard the Swedish-American liner Stockholm were testing their first night at sea. The 12,644-ton Stockholm, more tourist than tony, had sailed shortly before noon that day from Manhattan for Copenhagen. After she slipped out into the Hudson River, she idled in the stream while the larger (44,356 tons) lie de France swung from her pier down the Hudson. Then in file the two ships moved past Manhattan's towers, out through the Narrows into the open sea. By 11 p.m. Stockholm, lie de France and Andrea Doria were...
...Express, homeward bound to celebrate waso, a Buddhist holy season. Every seat in the expensive compartments was taken, and the railroad had hitched on extra cattle cars to accommodate hundreds of poorer men and women laden down with baskets of food. At outlying stations, scores of waso pilgrims climbed aboard, further packing the train...
Vain Hope. At 9:44 a.m. all was gay chatter aboard the Rangoon-Prome Express. At 9:45 an earth-shattering explosion, followed in quick succession by two more, picked up long sections of the track and shook the cars in the air like wet laundry. Gunfire poured from the trackside paddyfields and jungle as two cars of the train plowed into the disabled engine ahead. Other cars of the long train overturned in a nightmare of confusion, as tumbled, screaming passengers were impaled on splinters or crushed in the press of twisted steel...
...Bedford whaler, the John Howland, spotted the five starving Japanese who had given up all hope after nearly seven months. Having taken the castaways aboard, Captain William H. Whitfield went right on chasing whales. To Manjiro, whose usual catch was bass, whaling was a mighty experience. Quick, curious and alert, the young lad picked up English rapidly, learned the whaler's tasks and pitched in with a will. Captain Whitfield, a widower, took such a fancy to him that he brought him home (Fairhaven, Mass.), changed his name to John Mung, put him in school and took...
...rich, but he saved enough to realize his aim of getting back to Japan and his mother. Foreign ships were not permitted to enter Japanese harbors, but a U.S. captain agreed to drop Manjiro and two of his friends in a small boat which Manjiro had bought and taken aboard. Seventeen days out of Hawaii, the Japanese went over the side, four miles off Ryukyu. Manjiro was home, but it took "months of interrogation" before suspicious officials were satisfied that he had not picked up dangerous ideas...