Word: crewman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps I misread, for along with all of the above distractions I was at that moment busy ticking off an inexperienced crewman (named Malcolm Forbes) for his mishandling of the stern sheet. Yet I think I am correct in my recollection that Mr. Snotbottom advocated mandatory clothing for all Daily News reporters, at least when engaged in discharging their journalistic duties...
Dawn was just breaking over the Kuwaiti coast last Friday when the sleek missile came hurtling over the horizon. A crewman aboard the Sea Isle City, a Kuwaiti-owned tanker flying the U.S. flag, peered out the window of the bridge and saw it coming. "It looked like an oxygen tank and was smoking in the rear," he recalled later. "I told the captain 'Look!,' but it was too late." Seconds later the missile slammed into the ship. The warhead exploded in the officers' quarters of the vessel, which two days earlier had left behind its escort of U.S. warships...
...with the men they delicately termed "detainees" rather than "prisoners," the Iranians were transferred from the Jarrett to the La Salle. Dressed in fresh La Salle T shirts and oversize jeans, the sailors were bound by the wrists with plastic handcuffs, their ankles were tied with cord, and each crewman was put on a cot in the ship's vehicle-storage room. On Saturday they were flown to Oman and released to the International Red Crescent (the Islamic version of the Red Cross) for repatriation. Their ill-fated ship was packed with explosives and scuttled in deep water off Bahrain...
...Friasi then spotted a sailor aboard a lifeboat and dropped a 30-ft. rope ladder. Drained of his strength after 22 hours in the howling storm, the crewman struggled slowly up the ladder. Only a few feet from safety, he was struck by a mountainous wave and lost in the water...
Rescue efforts got under way immediately. The damaged Pyotr Vasev, which picked up the first survivors, was joined by coast guard launches, tugboats, helicopters, even rowboats. Stanislav Usanov, a motor-launch crewman, said "the people were often so weak that they could not hold on to the hands of the rescuers, so sailors risked their lives by jumping into the water...