Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starting times were delayed a little by the Leverett House crew, whose number seven man felt a little too strong in a practice start and broke his oar in half; but when Bert Haines got the boats off from the start of the first race, Lowell immediately jumped into a lead they were never to relinquish...
Gallantly coming down the home stretch 20 lengths behind the Lowell House crew, Leverett's eight yesterday took first honors for pluck as Lowell, Kirkland, Eliot and Adams earned places in the finals which will be rowed off tomorrow...
...fire roaring over it 50 yd. a second. Last place it reached was the passenger section in the belly, about one-third back from the bow. Silhouetted by the holocaust, passengers began dropping out of the windows like peas from a collander. From the control cabin swarmed officers and crew. Struggling figures emerged from the blazing hulk, stumbled, rose, fell again in fiery suffocation or from broken legs, shock, concussion. Down on the slowest ones then smashed the enormous incandescent mass in a blazing blizzard of fabric, crashing girders, melted duralumin. Still out of the inferno crept struggling figures, afire...
...rang the deep voice of Chief Boatswain's Mate Frederick J. Tobin, in charge of the ground crew: "Navy men, stand fast! We've got to get those people out of there!" With tremendous bravery, scores of gobs and civilians dashed headlong back to the conflagration. Though the heat was so intense that thermometers rose in the Navy Aerological School 500 yd. away, the rescuers charged into the control cabin and the passenger quarters. As one observer put it: "Those boys dived into the flames like dogs after rabbits!" Someone found Captain Lehmann, his clothes frizzled...
...twisted heap of redhot girders and the smoldering pud- dle of fuel oil. Not until next morning was the wreckage cool enough for men to pry out all the crisped bodies within, many of them only tentatively identifiable. The dawn score of deaths stood at eleven passengers, 21 crew, while 28 passengers and 49 crew miraculously escaped. One member of the ground-crew— Civilian Allen Hagaman—also died of burns. Most survivors were badly burned and three more crew and one more passenger presently perished. One of the first to go was Captain Lehmann. Just before he died...