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...steering mechanism ten minutes before the crash, and again after it, that on both occasions he found it "a little stiff, but all right in every way." Second Assistant Engineer Parry testified that the Mohawk's steering motor had frozen during cold weather a year ago, forced the helmsman to bring her into port with the emergency hand steering gear. But he was sure it had not frozen last week...
...your article captioned "Soul's Helmsman," p. 22, issue of August 13, when you mention the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the late Joseph Pulitzer, founder, and his son Joseph, and review briefly its growth to its present prestige, how could you leave out the name of the man who stood shoulder to shoulder with Joseph Sr. and Joseph Jr. for 50 years in the building of this great newspaper...
...Bristol this week, the Herreshoff workers will doubtless be as much surprised by her as they were by her owner. Endeavour, hydrangea blue above water, bronze below, is made entirely of steel except for a silver-spruce boom and a mahogany rudder. On a panel ahead of her helmsman, is a full set of airplane navigating
...starry April night in 1912 Robert Hitchens stood at the wheel of the Titanic, world's biggest, newest, fastest ocean liner, guiding her at full speed on her maiden voyage through the Newfoundland ice fields. Suddenly above the far-off music of the ship's orchestra, Helmsman Hitchens felt a scrape of ice on steel. Three hours later the S. S. Titanic slid to the bottom. Helmsman Hitchens was one of some 300 men who with about 400 women and children got away in lifeboats from the greatest marine disaster in history...
Recently at Torquay beach, ex-Helmsman Robert Hitchens, now 51, had trouble over another boat. After a quarrel with one Frederick Henley over a little motorboat he shot and pinked Henley. Last week at the Winchester Assizes, Titanic Helmsman Hitchens was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for attempted murder...