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...aircraft carrier Centaur picked up 55 bodies, then dispatched a helicopter to the Lakonia to see if anyone was still on board; from the vessel, a British officer reported that the liner was a burnt-out hulk. As the rescue ships sped from the scene toward the port of Funchal in Madeira, the ruined liner was taken into tow by the Norwegian salvage tug Herkules...
Captain's Retort. In Funchal, many of the survivors bitterly accused the Lakonia's crew of cowardice, panic and incompetence in the face of the disaster. One woman charged that she found a Greek crewman looting her cabin when she went to get her life jacket, and another claimed that a sailor had made a pass at her. Undoubtedly, many of the accusations were the result of passenger terror and hysteria and the fact that few of the crew spoke English, thus causing their intentions to be misconstrued. But it was evident that the fire-fighting procedures were...
Winston Churchill, on vacation at Funchal on the island of Madeira, received the news of the election date by telephone from London, promptly flew home. Landing at Southampton, Churchill said: "I heard there was going to be a general election, so I thought I had better come back in case I was wanted. I think it's high time we had a new Parliament." The old Tory also praised Attlee for giving six weeks' riotice of the election. Said Churchill: "It's just what I did the last time. I hope it will be an equally good...
Winston Churchill was whiling away several weeks painting the cliffs near Funchal, Madeira, marking time until he goes back to take part in Britain's coming general elections (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Funchal in the Madeiras, where they put in to shift ballast, Skipper Seligman took on one of the trophies of the voyage. The horde of bumboat-men around the ship included one rascally old cicerone who presented a letter purporting to be from the captain of another ship...