Word: crews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dead, or missing and probably dead, are in persons. Twenty-two bodies were recovered. The crew fared better than passengers, 155 out of a personnel of 198 having been picked up by rescue ships. Of passengers 60 were saved, 68 perished...
Hysterical survivors filled the press with stories of leaking lifeboats, faulty tackle, indifference of officers, mutinous and incompetent crew. Capt. William J. Carey went down with his ship; but those who watched him on the bridge, taciturn, deaf to questions and pleas, wonder why he deferred SOS until 20 hours after danger became apparent...
...Captain Carey ordered lifeboats lowered. Even now there was no panic among passengers, although several Negro mothers wailed, clutching their babies. Some Negro members of crew became mutinous, plundered sound equipment for their own boats, defied officers and ignored passengers. An officer threatened a raging big buck with his pistol. The Negro seized it and tossed it overboard...
...dissimilar situation in Wings. They showed his loved one as a song and dance girl in an army theatre. They showed his loved one all but shot as a German spy, her salvation being his presence in the firing squad. Suddenly German shells dropped and the whole crew were tumbled into a nearby cellar. A convenient priest began to read from the Bible the story of Noah's Ark. By a series of titles it was prodded home that war is like the Flood. Then the picture suddenly dipped back several centuries and went into the story of that wide...
...vexed when a pirate ship, the Hassan Birr, which has been terrorizing Baltic seacoast villages for over a month, escaped for the eleventh time, after being sighted, fired at and chased by the wallowing President Smetona. Fisherfolk who have been piratically molested by the Hassan Birr describe her crew as a rollicking, unblood-thirsty gang of Finns, Poles, Germans, Swedes led by a fierce red-bearded swashbuckler who claims to be a Lithuanian...