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...land the Admiral knew it was near (as the best experienced seamen do) by the look of the sea, the gathering of clouds, and the flight of birds. He ordered sail to be shortened lest they overrun in the night. . . . It was a nervous night . . . with the dipsey lead hove every quarter-hour; . . .the young and inexperienced imagining that they saw lights and heard breakers, the officers testy and irritable, and the Admiral calmly keeping vigil...
Roberts ordered the overcrowded President Harding hove to in mounting seas in the Stygian night of Oct. 17. That he was in the vicinity of the hurricane, he knew. But British ships had ceased broadcasting weather reports, which might betray their location to submarines, and he had no specific reports of the storm's path which might have enabled him to avoid it. The President Harding, now actually 200 miles east of the hurricane's core, was suddenly buffeted by a no-mile-an-hour wind, floundered in a sea which rolled up into a single mountainous wave...
...Bordeaux steamed the U. S. Independence Hall with survivors of the City of Mandalay, which was torpedoed as she stood by to rescue survivors of the torpedoed Yorkshire after both ships got separated from their convoy. A U-boat had followed the Yorkshire all day. When the Independence Hall hove to for its double rescue, the U-boat surfaced and its commander, in excellent English, called "Thank you!" He had killed 67 persons in sinking the two ships...
...Conference; TIME, Oct. 9), the Clement was plugging along at her weary ten-knot pace when members of the crew heard an airplane. The plane circled around, shot bursts of machine-gun fire into the air. Captain F. C. P. Harris stopped ship. A "warship" came up from nowhere, hove to, ordered the men into four boats, captured Captain Harris and his chief engineer, took still and moving pictures of the victims and their craft, and then "fired 25 shots into the Clement and finally torpedoed...
...tamer Clyde Beatty, Lieut. Burke asked a nearby rifle range to lend him its No. 1 marksman, a marine sergeant named Michael Peskin. Few minutes later Marksman Peskin and six guardsmen armed with submachine guns and 30-calibre rifles piled into a picket boat, shoved off for the Amazone, hove to southeast of Cape May, and their first lion hunt...