Word: florio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rockefeller Fellowship in the School of Public Health to Dr. Lloyd J. Florio, of Alden, New York...
Hurrying to the foundering British freighter Exeter City through a swirling mid-Atlantic storm steamed the American Merchant Line's S. S. American Merchant, captained by Giles C. Stedman, 35, hero of the Ignazio Florio rescue in 1925. A giant wave had swept overboard the Exeter City's skipper and three men, her bridge and most of her superstructure. Unable to launch a free lifeboat. Captain Stedman shot a lifeline aboard the fast-sinking freighter, by means of which the ship's 22 survivors towed over an empty lifeboat, had themselves towed to safety...