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Last week another Italian vessel came to grief on the Goodwins: the 2,327-ton freighter Silvia Onorato, carrying 2,933 tons of plumbago (graphite). When a lifeboat came through mountainous seas to take off the crew, bushy-browed Captain Francesco Ruocco cried: "Ship go, me go. . . . This ship she mean everything to me and to my bella...
...last week, Canada's Communists and fellow travelers were trying to overrule Canada's government. In Halifax the freighter Islandside was loading general cargo, but 600 tons of ammunition and six crated aircraft destined for China lay on the dock. Members of the Red-tinged Canadian Seamen's Union would not man the winches to load ammunition. If the ammunition were loaded, C.S.U. men would not take the ship...
...Vancouver, Commy agitators who had no connection with shipping succeeded in delaying another shipment of 630 tons of ammunition. Before it could be loaded on the Pakistan-owned freighter Colima, 100 pickets (many from the University of British Columbia), led by avowed Communists, paraded past the pier with signs reading: "Students say no arms to Fascists," and "Load bread, not bullets, on the Colima." Anti-Communist labor leaders in Vancouver and Ottawa forced the meddlesome Reds to back down and withdraw their pickets. But the Colima had overrun her charter date for loading the cargo, and Chinese officials...
...building is for sportsmen. In Meteghan, Atlantic Shipyards (builders of wooden ships for two centuries) has plans for turning out small steel freighters, has already converted a wartime corvette into a freighter and passenger carrier. The biggest order to date: three 3,100-ton transports for the Argentine Navy. Never in peacetime have Nova Scotia's yards had it so good...
Under certain rare conditions, magic-eyed radar goes blind. This sad fact was brought out last week at a Halifax inquiry into the collision of Canada's destroyer Micmac with the freighter Yarmouth County (TIME, July 28). The Micmac's radar scopes, said her crewmen, did not show the freighter, hidden in a fog bank dead ahead...