Word: cruisers
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...cruiser hauled up alongside, and an officer shouted through a megaphone: "Where you from? Where you bound?" The answer, "Cape Town to New Orleans," came in broken English-third suspicion...
...took a list and settled by the stern, but did not sink. The cruiser sent a salvage crew aboard, who eventually succeeded in pumping water out faster than the Odenwald, alias Willmoto, shipped it; and got the engines going...
...half-light of the equatorial daybreak, a U.S. cruiser sighted a vessel about eleven miles away. The cruiser signaled by searchlight. There was no answer-first suspicion...
...cruiser approached, made...
...cruiser dispatched a boarding party. But before the boarding party could get to the "Willmoto," the merchantman hauled down her call and hoisted the flags N (blue & white checks) over O (yellow & red diagonal fields): "I am sinking; send boats for passengers and crew." Immediately afterward there were two dull explosions aft, and lifeboats dropped...