Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pinthis (TIME, June 23). Fire and water killed 50, including all hands on the Pinthis. Wild tales by semi-hysterical passengers landed in Boston prompted the U. S. Steamboat Inspection Service to file four charges against Captain Archibald H. Brooks, master of the Fairfax: 1) excessive speed in a fog; 2) violation of pilot rules; 3) unskillfulness; 4) negligence. His trial by a Federal board of inspectors began in Boston where local feeling was strongly against him and was later transferred to Norfolk...
Last week the trial board reconstructed the disaster from the evidence, acquitted Captain Brooks of all four charges. It concluded that the Fairfax was traveling at 3 knots, the Pinthis at 7½ when they collided, that nobody heard any fog signals from the Pinthis, that Captain Brooks handled his helm and engines correctly. Declared the board: "Had the master executed any other maneuver than what he did, both vessels would have been sunk and possibly all lives lost...
Rolling at anchor in a pea-soup fog, the Italian salvage ship Artiglio lay off Cape Finistere last week and plumbed the depths. Steamers passing in the nearby trade lanes hooted mournfully but the Artiglio paid little attention. She was hunting one of the richest prizes of the ocean bottom...
Goodwill Tour. In the course of a tour of 100 smalltown Exchange Clubs, to demonstrate the dependability of aviation for passenger travel, Frank Goldsborough, 19, son of the late Brice Goldsborough,* took off from Cleveland for Keene, N. H. In the Green Mountains, he plowed into a peasoup fog. Unable to climb over it, he dove his Fleet biplane to 2,000 ft., crashed into the treetops near Bennington, Vt. Painfully injured. Goldsborough's companion, Donald Mockler, publicity-man for Richfield Oil Corp. tried to lift the wreckage that pinned Goldsborough, then stumbled through forest and swamp for five hours...
...from New Haven two months ago, landed the same day at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. where the crew of three angrily disbanded. Last week Pilots Garland Peed, Randy Enslow and Jimmy Garrigan took the K off from Roosevelt, refuelled over the field, headed for Havana. Soon they encountered sticky fog, lost their bearings, groped for eight blind hours until the K's fuel supply ran out. Then, without the vaguest idea where they were, they took to their parachutes, alighted near the wreck of the K,15 mi. from Monroe...