Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Murchie '28, when he was told that a message apparently coming from five persons in distress on the schooner Norka had been found on the shore of Martha's Vineyard. The message, a call for help which was dated August second and was scratched with a nail on a block of wood, asked that Murchie be notified...
...inscription scratched on a block of wood which was washed up on the shore of Martha's Vineyard today said that disaster had overtaken the schooner Norka in mid-Atlantic last August...
...block was described in the inscription as the last hope of five survivors who were adrift in an open boat on August second, approximately 1000 miles southeast of Boston. The message, signed by five sets of initials, requested that Donald Murchie of Dedham be notified...
...block of wood was picked up on the north shore of Martha's Vineyard by Arthur Green of North Tisbury. The message read...
Impeded by rough weather which kept cranes in shelter miles away from the spot where the submarine S-51 was sunk off Block Island in collision with the coastwise steamer City of Rome, the would-be rescuers of any sailors alive in the sunken submarine lost hope. Two divers sent down each succeeded in entering the battery room hatch and each brought up the body of a seaman...