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...Mate M. M. Hymer who, with his crew of four men, picked up 96 living persons from the sea and towed 70 more in other boats, to safety. Their 26-ft. self-bailing surfboat was the first on the scene. They plucked 14 from the sea and rushed them beachward; they returned immediately to find the City of Savannah and Monarch of Bermuda in the vicinity and later the Andrea F. Luckenbach and from then on they picked up the survivors and turned them over to the liner by the boat load. The surfboats cannot hold more than 20 persons...
...holiday in Port Darwin, Australia. Bunting fluttered in the streets. August sunshine beat down on the white-powdered road out to Mindil Beach, where the Timor Sea lay breathless blue under an offshore breeze. Soon after breakfast time, the beachward procession began-Port Darwin merchants cool in their white ducks; bronzed " 'roos" ("Kangaroos," i.e. Australians) from the cattle country; darker aborigines shuffling along in silent excitement; cooing Chinese in bright pajamas. They watched the horizon all morning. Some had gone home for midday tiffin, but most remained, chattering, scanning, pondering, when a school urchin jumped forward, his eyes bulging...
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