Word: cameronia
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Died. Sir David William Bone, 84, British master mariner who went to sea at 15, commanded troopships under fire in two wars (last to leave the torpedoed transport Cameronia in World War I, he grabbed the stay of a destroyer alongside as his ship sank), wrote several books about the sea (The Brassbounder, The Queerfella); in Farnham, England...
...Threat-of-the-week by Germany was publication of a list of British and French passenger ships which, since they are armed, will henceforth be "treated as enemy warships." Included were Aquitania, Britannia, Cameronia, De Grasse, Empress of Russia, Georgic, Mauretania, Queen Mary. De Grasse reached Manhattan safely this week. Cameronia arrived, too, wearing a new suit of orange-buff paint as camouflage. Theory: any attacking submarine must come to the surface to identify her fully, could then be gunned...
...tons of enemy bottoms had been captured and 104,000 tons of new British ships brought into service. Convoys for British shipping were now organized in the Seven Seas. Across the Atlantic a series of radio patrols two hours apart was substituted for transoceanic convoys. S. S. Cameronia arrived "going from lamp post to lamp post" as her commander...
...March of Influenza" is what Nature calls the pandemic which, first evident in the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 12 et seq.). has spread over Europe. Between the continents it hit the Cameronia, put 500 passengers to berth, killed none. Off England last week the entire crew of a fishing smack caught the disease, but kept to sea until they exhausted their rum & quinine. French battleships Paris and Jean Bart reported most of their personnel disabled...
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