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WASHINGTON--Capt. Joseph A. Gainard of the U. S. freighter City of Flint, which was seized by a German prize crew last fall, was exonerated today of misconduct charges brought before the Burean of Marine Inspection by two members of the crew who charged that Gainard could have obtained release of the vessel before it was finally freed from its Nazi captors by the Norwegian government...
They told them: how they had once wanted to attack the German prize crew which boarded their ship and forced them to sail her north to Murmansk; how Captain Joseph A. Gainard, lean, softspoken, restrained them; that the Nazi crew were "damned good sailors" but ate themselves stupid on U. S. cooking; how in Murmansk they had seen the liners Bremen, New York, St. Louis, Hamburg...
BERGEN, Norway--The American freighter City of Flint, shunted about the seas since its capture a month age today by the German pocket battleship Deutschland, will unload its cargo here and sail for the United States as soon as possible, Captain Joseph A. Gainard said today...
BERGEN, Norway--Captain Joseph A. Gainard of the American steamer City of Flint conferred tonight with Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, U.S. Minister to Norway, as to whether the ship will brave new dangers in the war zone or speed home to the United States...
...conference was held at the U.S. consulate after Capt. Gainard had broadcast to the United States an account of his ship's 26-day odyssey after its capture on Oct. 9 by the German pocket battleship Deutschland as a contraband carrier