Word: ireland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jammed aboard the U. S. liner President Harding when she cleared from Le Verdon, near Bordeaux, France on Oct.11 were 597 passengers (157 more than her capacity), 330 of them U. S. citizens. West of Ireland, Captain James E. Roberts turned to rescue the French tanker W. Emile Miguet, which radioed that it had been attacked by a submarine. On his way to her rescue he picked up 36 members of the crew of the British freighter Heronspool, which had also been torpedoed. He finally found the Miguet in flames, could see no sign of the crew, and resumed...
...Iroquois, formerly in our coastwise trade, was chartered by the Maritime Commission recently to go to Ireland to bring back Americans who had been caught in Europe at the outbreak...
...Iroquois sailed from Ireland on Oct. 2 with a full list of 566 American passengers...
Meanwhile the State Department rushed into action. A wireless was coded and dispatched to the vessel, which was about 800 miles west of Cobh, Ireland. To their surprise a casual message came back from Captain Edgar A. Chelton saying he had no code key; would they mind sending whatever they were saying in International Code-which anybody could decipher...
...radio log of the American Merchant reported the following series of messages received from the British freighter Fanad Head, sunk northwest of Ireland: 11:20 a.m. "S S S S" [Submarine...