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Some of the soldiers who jumped straight overboard when the missiles hit were saved. But hundreds were lost. It was bad. We were lucky. A British frigate found us, and that's why I'm in Gosport, England, Mom. There's a great joke going around here that Britain's been saved by the US Calvary riding in--like those old movies, you know...
...that it was found that a false keel should have been made as her old keel was badly warped or bogged. I found that in July and August of 1853 the false keel was attached to her old keel and that it was the intention of the commandant at Gosport to save and preserve as much of the old ship as was possible...
...blitz. More than 200 potholers poured in from nearby towns. A clerk who had been refused time off to help in the rescue quit his job. An R.A.F. mountain rescue unit arrived, followed by crack rescue groups from the National Coal Board and the submarine base at Gosport. Hospitals sent cylinders of oxygen. The rescue workers struggled through the mud and darkness, slithered into waist-high pools. Fifty volunteers were spaced out at intervals in the tunnel to make a hand chain for passing on ropes, food, lamps, oxygen cylinders...
...world-weary outsider, these sentimental lines would scarcely seem to fit the barren, rocky acres of Star Island, one of the nine Isles of Shoals off New Hampshire's brief coast. But to the religiously liberal Unitarian Fellowship, these and the other two stanzas of the song Gosport Harbor, explain the intangible atmosphere of peace that makes Star Island a favorite summer retreat. For half a century Unitarians have gone from some 24 states "to worship God here in the midst of His sea to take counsel together of the deep thing that abide, to share the friendship...
Last week the Unitarians ended their 50th anniversary summer meeting, turned the Island over to 165 Congregationalists. Like the Unitarians, they poked for gulls' eggs in the Island's scarred, flumed granite listened to lectures, held seminars and attended services in the little Gosport Meeting House. But, also like the Unitarians, they spent much of their time sitting in silent meditation...