Word: freudenberger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expressive face, ordinarily lined with the reassuring smile marks of the luxury-liner captain, now was creased by weariness and worry. "I-I have had no sleep in such a long time," said Captain Avner Freudenberg, 53, a 31-year veteran of the sea, to reporters...
...cannot-you will understand-give any details now." In response to continued questioning, Freudenberg finally smiled painfully and said: "I will now shut up. I cannot give any details." There were plenty of questions to be answered and plenty of details to be filled in by Freudenberg, skipper of the pride of the Israeli passenger fleet, the seven-month-old, $20 million Shalom, and by Captain Kristian Bendiksen, 54, of the 12,723-ton Norwegian tanker Stolt Dagali. The two ships collided early Thanksgiving morning in heavy fog 17 miles northeast of Barnegat Lightship, off the New Jersey coast...
...Shalom, Captain Freudenberg ordered all watertight doors closed. "We stopped immediately after the collision," he said. "There was no panic, not the crew and not the passengers. Then we heard the cries of men in the water. We knew it was none of our people. We lowered lifeboats to search for them." The Shalom's lifeboats picked up five of the tanker's crew...