Word: lamport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dickerson N. Hoover,* supervising inspector general of the U. S. Steamboat Inspection Service, gravely put his name last week at the end of a long document. It was a review of all the evidence given at the inquiry which he conducted into the sinking of the Lamport & Holt liner Vestris off the Virginia Capes on Nov. 12, with a loss of in. It blamed the man whose death, clinging to the bridge of the doomed ship, has been called another saga of the sea: Captain Carey...
...appears that between the time of his interview with Reporter Duffy and his appearance on the witness stand, Capt. Sorenson had called at the office of the Lamport & Holt Line, asked indemnification for his losses...
...Gold Ship. The Lamport & Holt liner Vestris, built in Belfast in 1912 and measuring 495 feet in length, 10,944 tons, plied between New York and Buenos Aires, stopping at the Barbados and way points. Because shipments of gold, sometimes valued at as much as $3,000,000, were often sent on her between Argentine and New York banks, she was referred to as "the Gold Ship." She was named for Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris, English actress...
...this time too he sent first general alarm, as far as is known, a C Q radio signal to other ships meaning "everybody listen." An hour later he sent SOS giving his position. To New York office of Lamport & Holt Line he reported: "During the night developed 32-degree list. Starboard decks under water. Ship lying on beam-ends. Impossible to proceed anywhere. Sea moderately rough...
...Buckingham '27; A. H. Chase '27; R. F. Courtney '29; R. C. Darling '29; Engene Eisenmann '27; D. G. Fisher '27; J. S. Frame '29; Carl Ginsburg '28; Israel Hoffman '28; Alan Holski '27; E. M. Hoover Jr. '28; M. I. Katz '27; W. A. Koshland '28; Harold Lamport '29; H. D. Lavine '29; O. S. Loud '29; C. L. Lundin '29; W. H. McMaster Jr. '29; F. G. Mantle '28; E. W. Moore '29; R. H. Norris '29; W. F. Ridout '28; E. A. Rieckman '29; S. M. Rosenberg ocC; Harold Rosenwald '27; S. C. Sanders...