Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thousand Goodbyes. In those long hours, the cabin of the wildly pitching plane became a stinking chamber of horrors. Many of the passengers expected to die, waited for the plane to open up with the smash of every sledging wave. Passengers and crew grew violently seasick, vomited helplessly on themselves and each other. Exhausted children were sick, fell asleep in the foul, chilly air, woke and were sick again...
...with a broom tied to her mast in token of a clean sweep rescue, she was given a tumultuous reception. Small craft swarmed around her, fireboats threw spray, whistles blew. Thousands lined the waterfront to see her. City officials and Coast Guard brass came aboard to offer captain and crew their congratulations and a horde of reporters descended on the Sky Queen's passengers...
Passengers on the big old Boeing flying boat Bermuda Sky Queen began complaining almost as soon as she took off from Foynes, Eire. The Sky Queen's owners, American-International Airways, Inc., had provided few comforts for her nonscheduled flight to Baltimore. She carried 62 passengers and seven crew members-one of the biggest human cargoes ever crammed into a transatlantic airplane. After a night in the air, the complaints grew. The steward served nothing but orange or tomato juice for breakfast, told passengers tartly that he "had other things to do beside cook food...
...seemed possessed of devils. It washed down on the cutter, crashed into the ship's hull and stove in its own nose. For seven hours, the cutter could do little but stand by as close as Captain Cronk dared, and make a lee as the plane's crew nervously jockeyed the Sky Queen's nose into the wind...
...make a lee, keep her searchlights on the plunging plane and wait for the worst. There were still 24 men and one woman aboard the plane. But the flying boat's hull stayed intact. In the morning, with the wind abating, the last of the passengers and crew were safely taken off. The cutter riddled the Sky Queen with gunfire, stood by while she burned and sank, then turned home...