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...four survivors managed to get two life rafts inflated, then collapsed, unable to move or help each other. On the second day searching bombers sighted them; that evening an Australian Catalina patrol flying boat rescued them...
Schooner or cutter (TiME, Dec. 13), no ship in the world has appeared more beautiful to anyone than did Donald Douglas' Endymion to my family and me one Sunday afternoon in the Catalina channel...
...Douglas . . . explains, "We're just a bunch of middle-aged fellows getting too lazy to handle a schooner." But schooner men take one look at Endymion's circus-tent mainsail and incredible mast and feel faintly ill. . . . Anyone who has seen the Douglas yacht charging home from Catalina of a Sunday afternoon, romping past other craft, both sail and power, knows that her owner sails her like a man possessed...
...another occasion, the General was asked to loan his personal Catalina flying boat to help PT boats flush a covey of Jap ships. Geiger first refused ("Got it filled full of holes the last time you fellows flew around out there"), finally gave in. But there was a string attached. He insisted on going along as copilot...
Using the salvaged lamp, the Norwegians signaled a wandering Catalina of the British Coastal Command, and on June 2 a British force arrived with supplies. The reinforced Norwegians moved against Longyear City. The Germans had gone. Since then drear, desolate Spitsbergen has been in Allied hands...