Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honorary President of the American Red Cross, President Coolidge appointed members to its Central Committee-to continue as chairman, John Barton Payne; to represent the State Department, Undersecretary Mills; War, Surgeon-General Ireland; Navy, Captain Charles Edward Riggs; Justice, Solicitor-General Mitchell...
...inquiry which he conducted into the sinking of the Lamport & Holt liner Vestris off the Virginia Capes on Nov. 12, with a loss of in. It blamed the man whose death, clinging to the bridge of the doomed ship, has been called another saga of the sea: Captain Carey...
Then, when obviously the ship was in grave peril, Captain Carey should have sent out his SOS. He delayed this too long. The lifeboats were in good condition, but were lowered with difficulty on account of the extreme list of the vessel. "No systematic effort was made to get the passengers into these boats...
...When Captain Carey failed, none of his officers took charge. "The officers of this ship do not seem to measure up to the standard that we would expect in a British ship." And from the whole disaster Inspector Hoover stated there was one great lesson to be learned. Mechanically, nothing went wrong. Humanly, almost everything went wrong. "We must hereafter stress men more than things...
Especially significant was Inspector Hoover's recommendation that admiralty laws be amended reducing the amount of salvage that may be claimed by masters of ships which answer another's SOS. Inspector Hoover pictured the reluctance of a captain in time of peril to incur the expense of salvage. "If the amount was reduced, the master of a ship in distress would not hesitate too long before asking for help...