Word: gales
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...fire when a stove turned over, an anchor was lost, the sailing gear fouled. To save themselves and the boat, Ann and Frank worked themselves to exhaustion. For a while, Frank went out of his mind and his wife had to handle him and the ship through a smashing gale. Even after the Reliance was battered into helplessness, the Davisons refused help from passing ships, hoped to make a small port from which they could slip out when the weather cleared...
...feet before they could be buried. The living crouched in sandpits near the beach, and there-without strength to move the men who died beside them, with little food except for sea otters and seals that they were able to kill, open to all weathers, and to winds of gale force-spent the whole of an Arctic winter...
Orphans of the Storm Coast Guard headquarters in Boston braced for battle as the tanker Fort Mercer, 29 miles off Cape Cod's Pollock Rip lightship, sent out an S O S. The worst nor'easter of the winter was burying New England in gale-blown snow and raising pure white hell offshore. Blinding snow, 50-ft. waves, and winds up to 90 miles an hour smashed the distressed tanker as the Coast Guard cutter Yakutat and the Navy cargo ship Short Splice hunted her. Just after noon, she broke...
...Bring his gale-battered ship to port...
...great wave smashed over the ship. Carlsen was swept off his feet, skidded along the slanted deck, barely saved himself from going overboard. He and Dancy settled down to wait for a break in the weather, but within minutes the Keith's radio operator was picking up new gale warnings. Carlsen and Dancy moved higher, scrambled up to the captain's office on the starboard side. At 10 a.m. next morning, the storm was still blowing at gale force. Another tug, the Dexterous, arrived from Falmouth to help; the radio began crackling out urgent messages...