Word: crew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fire. Seven thousand miles away in Washington, shocked by the line's second and by far most costly fatal accident,* Pan American's president, Juan Terry Trippe, sorrowfully announced: "Everyone connected with Pan American Airways is grieved beyond expression. . . . The death of Captain Musick and his crew is an irreparable blow to our company and will be a distinct loss to American aviation. Captain Musick contributed much to American prestige in the air." In President Trippe's opinion, "The Samoan Clipper was destroyed by fire of unknown origin . . . incidental to the discharge of fuel." What caused...
...plane, that it is forbidden by the Bureau of Air Commerce on all U. S. passenger-carrying aircraft. It is therefore possible that Ed Musick's last professional decision was his first unwise one. Nevertheless, President Trippe made it plain: "I feel that Captain Musick and his flight crew are entirely blameless...
...around and filling the forward deck with four feet of water. We were carrying a shipment of 477 empty barrels on that deck, and they started to break loose and smash door knobs. . . . To save the ship from damage, we brought her around out of the wind so the crew could clear the deck and throw some of the barrels overboard. Irwin went on the forcastle head and watched the crew at work. But when the third officer headed the ship in the wind again, Irwin kept standing there, although it was the most exposed part of the ship...
...Regina Maria was unmercifully buffeted. Two feet of water flooded the stateroom of the Crown Prince, and the violent wind snapped off one of the destroyer's masts., For 36 hours the Regina Maria bucked and plunged, water even in her engine room, spray frozen on her. Her crew got neither food nor sleep. "Can't I do something to help?" asked the nauseated Crown Prince...
...back to the great Rumanian port of Constantsa. For hours special trains had been standing with steam up at Constantsa and two Bulgarian ports at which the Crown Prince might conceivably land. As Mihai stepped ashore, deathly pale from seasickness, he ordered food, drink and warm clothing for the crew, then boarded King Carol's own special train, started out for Athens. At Bucharest he stopped to tell King Carol, "Of course I was badly scared...