Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Washington they returned their decision. Though Canadian-registered, the ship, they reported, had been owned by a New York liquor syndicate. Waived, therefore, was Canada's claim for $386,803.18 damages for ship & cargo. But the deliberate sinking of the ship had been justified neither by treaty nor international law. Therefore the U. S. Government should pay the ship's captain & crew sums totaling $25,666.50. To the Canadian Government it should deliver a confession of guilt, an apology, and, "as a material amend in respect of the wrong...
...Mauretania, launched in 1907, and the Olympic, launched in 1911, are still in transatlantic trade. But the Minnetonka and Minnewaska, built for comfort in an age of speed, took eight days from New York to London.* Comparatively exclusive, they carried only 400 one-class passengers in cabins amidships. Biggest cargo ships afloat, they rode rough seas smoothly. But they were slow, and because they were slow International Mercantile Marine sold them to the "knackers" last week for 4? on the dollar-$12,000,000 worth of steel & iron & wood for less than...
Once soon after the U.S. entered the War, Skipper Claret was taking the Minnehaha to Britain with a heavy cargo of TNT. Several days out of New York he received a radiogram from the U.S. Navy Department to the effect that a bomb hidden aboard his ship was timed to explode that very noon. Captain Claret ordered the crew to make a search drill, did not tell them why. When they failed to find anything, he stood anxiously on the bridge, waited watch in hand. Noon came & went. Nothing happened. Claret had about decided that it was a false alarm...
...pipe fire-extinguishing gas to any threatened part of the ship." ...Fire control rooms exist on some of the very large liners but on the Morro Castle and like boats, fire apparatus is installed on the bridge.... It is possible to pipe fire-extinguishing gas to the inaccessible cargo and like spaces. It is not permitted by law, at the present time, to pipe any fire-extinguishing gas into passenger quarters.... The only method of fighting the fire in the superstructure and cabin is through the use of portable extinguishers and water at hoses...
...stores for a limitless voyage. Idle crowds milled about the blue Mediterranean shore. On board the vessels activity was intense. Men, who by their very dress, proved themselves to be no native mariners, were making ready for the departure of the craft. Another weighted donkey drew up, discharged his cargo, departed. The group about the shore increased as word about the town had spread that the fleet was in readiness to sail...