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...Seafarers International Union, headed by freighter-sized (220 lbs.) Paul Hall. The S.I.U. centers its power on Atlantic and Gulf Coast tankers and other bulk cargo ships...
They began to come one night in late March. Just after dark, a Soviet freighter arrived off Takoradi, Ghana's principal port-where all operations normally are in the daylight hours-and advised the harbor authorities that it was ready to discharge its cargo immediately. Although the harbor pilots usually go off duty at 4:30 p.m., the ship was quickly berthed...
...charm of ^-dropping has its limits, but Ruark rambles entertainingly about hunting, about shipping out on a rust-bucket freighter, and about the Old Man's tactful peace overtures to a Boy who has run away and who wishes his pride allowed him to run home again. It may occur to the reader that what the author has preserved is not merely leaf pressings of his own boyhood. The time has passed already, for instance, when most boys in the U.S. dreamed for three months a year of the opening of quail season. For that matter, the time...
...famed for his rescues at sea and for evacuating 1,400 people from Singapore aboard the refitted luxury liner America in 1942 while under Japanese bomber attack; of a stroke; in London. His oddest lifesaving exploit occurred off Ireland in 1939, when a Nazi U-boat torpedoed the British freighter Olive Grove only after waiting for her 33-man crew to escape in rowboats, then fired rockets to summon Stedman's liner, the Washington, to the rescue...
Radio Nord is only the latest radio pirate to steal onto the airways. The Swiss-owned Radio Mercur began broadcasting to Danish listeners from a freighter off Copenhagen three years ago, now takes in some $700,000 annually, boasts some 300,000 listeners, recently expanded to a bigger, better ship. A year ago, Radio Veronika began pirate broadcasts into Holland from an old German lightship, is still going strong, even tried an abortive beaming into England (they stopped because Dutch listeners complained, wanted all the programs in Dutch...