Word: delton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Delton Conly both loved adventure. They were married last year and sailed out of Oakland, Calif. for a cruise to Hawaii and on around the world in a converted lifeboat. That trip ended just outside of Golden Gate when Eve, who was pregnant, became ill. Ashore, they moped around until their round-eyed daughter, Patsy, was six months old. Last summer the Conlys began making new plans...
...August, the 28-foot lifeboat, sloop-rigged, christened the Wing On, was loaded to the gunwales with diving gear, radio receiving set, bedding, food supplies. The Conlys left Patsy with Delton's sister. The Thompsons left a two-year-old daughter and infant son with grandparents...
...dead were Eve and Delton Conly. The still-living woman was Fern Thompson. The Wing On's fragmentary log told the rest. After noting that the yacht had run into a "cyclone," the entry dated Nov. 7 read: "Discovered Chet had died. What next? Help us, oh God!" On Nov. 8: "Buried Chester Thompson, 21, at 8:10 a.m.; died starvation ... he was too far gone at any rate to stand any of the remaining can of apricots we had." The last entry, on Nov. 12, was merely: "D. A. Conly, master, yacht Wing...
...Delton Conly, according to Fiji officials, had apparently died soon after he had scrawled his signature. Eve had died just a day or two before the sea washed the Wing On up on Vanua Levu. The rest of the story of the 100-day adventure was locked behind the swollen lips of Fern Thompson, who, in critical condition, was carried delirious to an island hospital...