Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noon Sunday Captain Carey ordered half speed, according to Engineer Adams, alternating from port to starboard engines...
...Captain Carey ordered lifeboats lowered. Even now there was no panic among passengers, although several Negro mothers wailed, clutching their babies. Some Negro members of crew became mutinous, plundered sound equipment for their own boats, defied officers and ignored passengers. An officer threatened a raging big buck with his pistol. The Negro seized it and tossed it overboard...
...Sunday Captain Carey was striving to reach by radio the Voltaire, of his own line, bound north and in the approximate locality. Meanwhile, the Voltaire had been instructed to go to aid the laboring Vestris. She could not do so on account of broken propeller and adverse winds...
...clock, Captain Carey, hitherto indifferent to pleas of passengers to "do something," ordered women and children on deck...
...Women and children first!" cried Captain Carey, haggard and unkempt, in long black coat on the bridge...