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...black with people for miles on either shore. The two most powerful tugs in Glasgow puffed importantly about the stern. Six lesser tugs stood by. At 9:30 a. m. the bridge gave the first order: "Let go!" Then down to the engine room went the signal DEAD SLOW ASTERN. All up & down the river whistles were tooting, crowds cheering. But there was hardly a sound from the shipyard workmen. As the steel cables snaked ashore they saw their 7,000 jobs go out with the ship.* The problem now was to move a ship a fifth of a mile...
...only two salvage ships at hand last week when it was estimated more than 50 tugs were needed, officials of Merritt, Chapman & Scott Inc., No. 1 U. S. salvagers, decided to make the Rotterdam rescue herself. Lightening ship as much as possible, they sank eight 34½-ton anchors astern, ran block and tackles from each to the Rotterdam's winches. Then, with the two salvage ships helping somewhat, the stricken liner slowly dragged herself back into deep water. Towed off to Kingston at once, she was found virtually undamaged, was expected back in service in short order...
Seven boats, each with eight oars protruding, lined up like as many centipedes on the west side of the Hudson river, each held in place by a marker bost. That is the scene upon which the spectators in the 40 flatcars look. The official yacht draws up astern. An old, but erect man, Julian W. Curtiss, a Yale oarsman of the seventies and referee for almost three decades, steps forward...
...Brooding because the boatswain had taken his bedroom slippers, the ship's lookout fell 40 ft. from the crow's nest, arose unharmed. A 40-ft. whale became so firmly impaled on the Pennsylvania's bow that the captain had to put his ship astern to dislodge it. The liner also rushed to the aid of a freighter, took off a wiper who had a chicken's wishbone lodged in his throat...
...enough to ripple the surface of the groundswell, backed up to the north. Time limit for America's Cup races is five-and-a-half hours. Five-and-a-half hours after the start Rainbow was barely half a mile from the finish line, with Endeavour a mile astern. The Committee boat gave the signal-dropping a red ball-that meant "No Contest...