Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Third Assistant Engineer Arthur Stamper stuck manfully at his post below deck, later fought the blaze on deck for three hours. What did the radio officers...
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Variously. Six of the Morro Castle's twelve lifeboats reached shore. In the first five to take off were 92 of the crew, six passengers. Among the crew fatalities were 18%; among passengers, 29%. A night-watchman declared that he led 50 passengers to the promenade deck, but two boats loaded with the crew would not wait for them...
...destroyers. The Committee boat had already signalled the course when Vincent Astor's Nourmahal with President Roosevelt aboard slid up to the line, received side-boys from Coast Guard and Navy craft. An able and enthusiastic sailor, the President watched the proceedings closely from the Nourmahal's deck, exercised his prerogative as commander-in-chief of the Navy half way through the race. When he thought the destroyer Manley, with newsreel men aboard, was crowding Endeavour, he had a sailor wigwag: "Suggest you are too close to challenger. ROOSEVELT." The Manley promptly dropped back, trailed the fleet home...
...Harvard squad of fourteen players, Coach Henry Chauncey '28 (also a Freshman Dean) and Mrs. Chauncey left Cambridge on July 11, travelling by bus to Chicago and then by train to the Pacific Coast where they arrived an July 17 just at the time of the deck strike there. The teat managed to get aboard ship, however and set sail for Hawaii where they spent two weeks and played in five exhibition games...