Word: krassins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first showing in Manhattan of a newsreel concerning the rescue of the Nobile North Pole Expedition by the Russian icebreaker, Krassin, yells, screams, and shouts of "Cannibal" greated the image of Zappi, Italian captain accused of eating Swedish Explorer Malmgren...
...thousands who followed the flight of General Nobile and felt the sudden silence of his craft, "The Italia," and traced day by day the rescue effort, knew somehow that there was a Russian boat called an ice-breaker and named "Krassin," which reminded many only of some wild drink, beating her way north among the floes. Perhaps there was in the minds of some a sense of incongruity that a Soviet ship, owned by a government which most people think is the enemy of mankind, should be on a mission of mercy...
June 14: Soviet icebreaker Krassin leaves Leningrad for Kings...
July 11: Soviet Pilot Chukhnovsky with crew of four, takes off from Krassin, sights Capts. Mariano & Zappi and the body of Malmgren. He is forced down on North East Land. Marooned, Pilot Chukhnovsky directs rescue of Malmgren party by radio...
...July 12: Krassin rescues Capts. Mariano & Zappi, foodless for 13 days; pushes on to Nobile camp, picks up five castaways, ill, half-crazed...