Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arctic, the icebreaker Braganza, searching for lost members of Pilgrim Nobile's crew, was forced last week by the weather to turn south...
...reached harbor safely at Balboa, Canal Zone. The freighter William A. McKenney lost a third mate, steward, carpenter, boatswain, six seamen, two cooks, the first and chief assistant engineers who were battening down tarpaulins and were caught in the abrupt rush of an enormous wave. Only seven of the crew survived. Also reminiscent of Conrad was the cat of the liner American Star, which reappeared, wan, mewing, after an absence of two perilous days...
...Baltimore quarantine 16 stowaways cringed, and no less than 400 rats scuttled, in hidden places of the S. S. Steel Inventor, in last week from Brazil. Health inspectors were about to fumigate her. The crew fastened doors and hatches. All was quiet below. The boat rocked a little; chains scraped; water tattled against the hull. Then a sweetish odor came upon the hidden men, like the taste of peach stone kernels. Seven of them collapsed, limply, dead from the hydrocyanic acid gas used for the fumigation...
Jolly British tars were grave, last week, at news that the submarine L55 had been raised from Baltic waters, after nine years. Forty-one British skeletons were discovered by the salvage crew all of whom were Soviet Russian sailors, commanded by Comrade Chief Commander (Admiral) R. A. Muklevich. Said...
...Torres), village virgin, daughter of the chief. After they are married, Dr. Lloyd becomes greedy for native pearls. He lights a beacon, hoping to attract a passing ship to help him loot the village. Then he repents, but dastardly Pearl Trader Sebastian has seen the beacon. Sebastian and his crew ravage the island, leaving behind them the white men's shadows-lust, liquor, disease, greed. Dr. Lloyd is killed while trying to defend his race...