Word: athenia
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...other event brought the war over seas. At 9:25 on a grey morning a black-hulled little freighter called City of Flint, usually carrying six passengers, sailed into Halifax with 223 survivors of the torpedoed Athenia. The flag was at half-mast...
Wearily the Athenia' s passengers told their stories to reporters whose questions were not brash or prying. What was there to tell? Yes, it was a submarine. There was a terrific shock, the lights went out, the tables in the dining room slid across the floor, women screamed and children began to cry-people were just lighting cigarets, just finishing coffee after dinner, just reaching for something to read-there was heroism, as always, and panic, as always; there was a man who stole a Minneapolis girl's flashlight and a few members of the crew who crowded...
...Ontario asked the Ottawa Government to order flags flown at half-mast for Margaret Hayworth, asserted that the "world's jury" had found Adolf Hitler guilty of the child's murder. Dr. Richard L. Jenkins, of Warwick, N. Y., returning from an Edinburgh scientific convention when the Athenia was torpedoed, had written a poem "to the memory of Margaret Hayworth" on the voyage over...
...earnest through the coastal waters around Great Britain was H. M. S. Courageous, oldest vessel of Britain's six aircraft carriers. Her broad, windswept flight deck was busy with planes coming & going to scout for U-boats. Last Sunday evening, just before the dusk hour at which the Athenia was sunk two Sundays prior, the eyes that saved others were not quick enough to save the Courageous. "There were two distinct bangs at intervals of about a second" (said a survivor) and the 22,500-ton craft - torpedoed squarely-keeled over and foundered in 30 minutes. Destroyers nearby raced...
...Harvard students are known to have been on board the Athenia when it was sunk, although one undergraduate cancelled his passage at the last minute...