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...different forward. A huge wave had smashed into the forecastle deckhouse and buried it under tons of water. Two cooks were working in the crew's galley when the wave struck. It stove in the door, ripped open a steel bulkhead, and as the cooks crouched by the wall drove the stove and two half-ton boilers straight through the rear bulkhead. Seaman H. J. Johnston of Portsmouth was in the alleyway. Fifteen minutes later when the water had ebbed enough for an officer and a quartermaster to wade in, Seaman Johnston was found dead, smashed against the wall...
...stranger come aboard, no one saw him debark. Police investigation soon revealed that the Captain, a Pole interned at Atlanta during the War on suspicion of being a spy, had made a business of organizing bizarre junkets, soliciting junketeers through newspapers. He had been married three times. Only one bulkhead separated the dead man from his two sleeping children, Valerio, 7, and Nile, 6. His wife Aloha, young and comely, was reported in Hollywood at the time of shooting...
...materials might be impregnated. When subjected to heat, the compound is supposed to emit fire-quenching gases. A test reported by the New York Times last week: one-half of a miniature blimp was impregnated with Dr. Eichengriin's solution, shut off from the other half by a bulkhead. The untreated portion was ignited, blazed away in a flash; the treated half remained intact, kept the whole structure aloft...
...trimotored Rohrbach-Romar seaplanes his company has built for Luft Hansa's trans-Atlantic service crashed at Travemuende, Germany, floated for 90 minutes, then sank. Thirteen passengers and crew were saved. The crash was due to test flying at low speed. The sinking was because hull portholes and bulkhead doors had not been closed as Dr. Rohrbach had ordered...
Ships. For the first time in 12 years all cross channel ships and airplanes had to suspend service for some days. When the French channel steamer Engadine set out imprudently from Boulogne, towering seas swept off a hatch, flooded her bow, and burst through a bulkhead into the women's firstclass saloon. By supreme good fortune no one was drowned within the ship and she managed to limp into Folkstone harbor without foundering...