Word: capt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long sailed Capt. Fried. At nightfall his searchlights revealed the Florida dead ahead. A miracle had been accomplished by radio science. The Florida, listing sharply, with one rail under water, had been changing its position constantly because its engines were still slowly turning over. But Fried and his Kolster were in time...
...Capt. Fried lowered a lifeboat manned by young Chief Officer Harry Manning and eight oarsmen from the crew. The bow oar spoke Italian. In a shrieking wind, a tortured sea, the lifeboat drew near the Florida. The bow oar translated Officer Manning's commands to the derelict crew. The lifeboat stood off 50 feet, imperiled by wash from the listing vessel, and took off 32 men, with Capt. Favaloro last. Some of the men had prepared knives and poison to commit suicide. They were starved, half-naked, half-crazy. Capt. Fried and Officer Manning got them all aboard the America...
...second time Capt. Fried had entered port a hero. Three years ago, when master of the President Roosevelt, he rescued 25 men from the foundering British tramp steamer Antinöe after three and one-half days of labor...
...other kudos is the International League of Aviators' accolade for flyer-of-the-year. Last week, in Paris, the League announced whom it regarded as the most significant flyers of 1928. It was a specialists' tribute to specialists. The names form an epitome of air adventure. Capt. Arturo Ferrarin of Italy, his fel lows believe, accomplished the best feat of the year. With Major Carlo Delprete, he flew non-stop from Rome to Port Natal, Brazil, 4,417 miles in 51 hr. 59 min. Capt. Ferrarin's predecessor, in 1927, was of course Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...Carl Ben Eielson, who flew the Arctic with Sir George Hubert Wilkins. Both are in Antarctica now, preparing to return to the U. S. after flights in Graham Land. Australia: Capt. Charles E. Kingsford-Smith, who flew the Southern Cross from the U. S. to Australia. England: Harold ("Bert") Kinkier, solo from England to Australia. Spain...