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Soon after the fire alarm had sounded. the port side of the ship was like the inside of a Bessemer converter. Astern, cut off from ship's officers by the fire, frightened passengers in night clothes prayed, shrieked, sang "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here." A young Catholic priest walked calmly around giving all comers final absolution. Eight of the ship's twelve boats were lowered. There was fighting to get into these. "Everybody was pushing and screaming topside." said Seaman Carl Jackson. "The passengers were fighting to get to the lifeboats, but it was no good. They were...
...bore by. The sounds that came across the steel-grey waters to the President's ear were few and sharp: brass bands playing one chorus of the national anthem, the six-pounders saluting 21 times, like doors banging in a distant, empty house. A thousand yards astern of the carriers footed seven Treaty cruisers of the Scouting Force, then a brood of 21 destroyers. Two thousand yards behind them glided the cruisers and destroyers of the Battle Force, followed by nine of the nation's 15 capital ships. New Mexico and Mississippi looked the most impressive with their...
...course, and turned in the time of 21 minutes, 15 seconds in spite of whitecaps which threatened to swamp the shell. Coach Charlie Whiteside appeared pleased by the performance. The Jayvee and Freshman boats paced the Varsity for the first two miles, and both were at least a length, astern at the finish...
...held it for six beats, turned his head to make sure that Yale had cracked, and then, crazily excited, stood up and waved his arms above his head as his boat crossed the line-winner for the third year in succession, with Yale, utterly spent, 1¾lengths astern...
From the mainmast of the new 10,000-ton cruiser Augusta flew the three-starred flag of Vice Admiral Frank H. Clark, the Scouting Force's commander. Astern steamed the Navy's newest and best men-o'-war-the heavy cruisers Salt Lake City, Chicago, Chester, Louisville, Northampton, Pensacola. Spread out in the van were 13 destroyers, their needle-like hulls wallowing in the long blue swell, their stacks belching inky smoke. The 33,000-ton aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga, each with fourscore planes on her flat back or in her cavernous belly, completed the procession...