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...British freighter was outward bound on the broad St. Lawrence River. Suddenly there was a terrific explosion. The order to abandon ship came almost immediately, and 17 men scrambled into a boat and shoved off. "We were adrift for about ten minutes when we heard a second explosion. The ship went down fast after that. We . . . didn't see anything more of the rest of the crew." At week's end, more than 40 men were still missing...
...weeks alone on a rubber raft. More than a month later a Navy vessel found the frail craft with Cooper's body and on paper leaves in his wallet a record of what a kid thinks about as he dies slowly and painfully. Wrote Cooper after three weeks adrift...
...Hollywood. Alfred Hitchcock, a man who has been connected with grade A pictures, seemingly which all begin on a fast-moving European express train, has come forth with another hit, but it is an innovation. All the action, and it is a long film, takes place on a lifeboat adrift in the middle Atlantic. No express train...
...formed in January 1943 to support the drive up the Solomon Islands. A few days later, Twining was flying in a Fortress from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal to Espiritu Santo. A violent tropical storm forced the plane down at sea, and General Twining and his men were adrift in rubber rafts for six days, living on fish and seagulls, before patrol bombers rescued them...
...Passage to Marseille" starring Humbrey Bogart is a story of a French freighter making its way through the Caribbean bound for Marseille. It picks up five men adrift on a raft, who later confide to a Captain Freycnet(Claude Rains) that they are fugitives from Devils Island, all of them French patriots sworn o return to France and fight the Boche. The leader of the five is Matrac (Bogart) who was the victim of a trumped-up charge of murder and treason, in politically upset pre-war France...