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...Halifax fishermen were in luck the moment the tow line snapped. Driven by the wind, the disabled U.S. Liberty ship drifted helplessly away from the tug which was towing her into port. She slid past the islands which ring Halifax's outer harbor, grounded firmly on Lobster Claw Ledge. Rocks under the sea smashed her hull. She lay broken near the land, her mid decks awash...
...after box was manhandled up to the deck, passed to the small boats, nosing against the big hull like a prodigious litter of hungry pigs. Office workers, off-duty firemen, taxi drivers jolted out from Halifax, 18 miles away, to share in the bonanza. Cases of field rations were broken open on the shore, their cigarets and candy snatched out, the rest of the contents scattered over the rocks...
Early last week Halifax officers of the U.S. War Shipping Administration decided to try to save what cargo was still aboard and recover what had been removed. Newspaper advertisements asked salvagers to bring in their "take," accept U.S. cash awards. Salvaging firms and stevedoring companies went to work...
Navy headquarters stopped chuckling long enough to release the story last week. The corvette Mayflower, called "Daisy Mae"* by her men, left Halifax early in the war to herd 75 cargo ships across the Atlantic. Her only weapons: eight depth charges, six rifles, one Tommy gun, one Lewis gun, three revolvers. But the "Daisy Mae" also had plenty of nerve...
...Halifax had reason to be grateful to John Brackett...