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Having sold his $2,500,000 yacht Corsair IV to the British Government last spring, J. P. Morgan chartered the 115-ft. motor yacht Inishowen V for the New York Yacht Club's annual cruise, ran aground off Fishers Island...
...desperation Pilot Alcock set the Corsair down with a sickening crunch that stove in her bottom. As she started to flounder, he deliberately hurtled her at full throttle against the steep shore. While his five frightened passengers jumped to safety he kept his engines roaring wide open, managed to hold the ship against the bank until his crew unloaded the mail, jumped clear. As the 2,960-h.p. engines finally sputtered and died, some $200,000 worth of flying boat sank back into the tropic Dangu...
...London while thrifty Sir John rushed salvage engineers to the jungle. In three months, despite jungle fever, they completed repairs, and in July, when the Dangu rose to flood, they prepared to take off. With her four giant engines scaring up a bright cloud of fluttering parakeets, the patched Corsair lumbered majestically downstream. Before she rose, there was a disheartening rip and she tore her bottom out on a jagged rock...
...John Reith figured the twice-floundered Corsair still worth a muckle. He sent a fellow Scot, braw George Halliday, Imperial Airways sectional engineer, out from Cairo. By this time the river had gone down and there would not again be enough water for a take-off till spring of 1940. Scot Halliday figured Congo weather would have ruined the Corsair utterly by then...
With the river finally dammed, the water rose rapidly and Jan. 13 was set for the takeoff. Suddenly the dam started giving way. Britons and blacks pitched in together, toiled side by side all night, finally stopped the leaks. Meanwhile the water level had sunk, the Corsair was sitting upstream, on her bottom. Tearing his hair was Imperial Airways Ace Captain Kelly Rogers, first pilot to land in New York harbor at night, who inaugurated the British north Atlantic mail service. Said he afterward: "To lift the Corsair from the water we had to sink huge petrol tanks under...