Word: flints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--Capt. Joseph A. Gainard of the U. S. freighter City of Flint, which was seized by a German prize crew last fall, was exonerated today of misconduct charges brought before the Burean of Marine Inspection by two members of the crew who charged that Gainard could have obtained release of the vessel before it was finally freed from its Nazi captors by the Norwegian government...
...problem no longer to Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, the German Navy, and Russian and Norwegian authorities, the freighter City of Flint was safe home in Baltimore at week's end. With three months' pay and a bonus in their shoregoing pants, safe were her seamen in "Mae's Tavern," "Joe's Place" and the "Jolly Spot." Home was the sailor, with yarns to tell...
During the three weeks the City of Flint was in Bergen harbor, busiest of her crew was Junior Third Mate Carl C. Ellis of Newtonville, Mass. When he finally sailed away, he had the promise of 22-year-old Norwegian Ruth Englesen to marry him, if he can arrange for her entry...
...stop and submit to a search? One steamship company, anxious to get a vessel past Gibraltar, thought of ordering its skipper to do just that-shut off all radio communication, black out and try to slip through. Such an incident might easily transcend the adventure of the City of Flint, the U. S. freighter which was captured by the Germans, detained by the Russians, freed by the Norwegians and returned to Baltimore last week under its own flag...
...freighter City of Flint, tempest teapot of the war's sixth week, when she was taken captive by Germany, later freed from a Nazi prize crew by Norway, sailed at last out of Narvik for home with a cargo of iron ore. Leaving the harbor in a fog, she whanged into a British freighter, had to put back to repair damaged plates...