Word: lifeboat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...church, rescuing Madame de Laage (Mary Astor), whose husband, Resident Governor Eugene de Laage (Raymond Massey). stood ready to send him back to prison. When the waves subside, one group of survivors, lashed to a tree, is bobbing on the waves. Another has weathered the blow in a beached lifeboat in which, while the hurricane raged, a child was somehow born. Madame de Laage shows what good breeding can accomplish by surviving the worst storm in cinema history without spoiling her light dress or losing the wave in her hair. She ends in the arms of her husband who, grateful...
Boats have raced their lifeboat crews almost as long as they have been meeting in the harbors of the world but not until 1927 did lifeboat racing come into its own as an international sport. In that year the old Neptune Association, an organization of deepwater shipmasters and licensed deck officers, began holding international races of one nautical mile in New York Harbor, first of which was won by the crew of the Norwegian Segundo. In 1933, after the race had been increased to two miles. Robert L. Hague of Standard Oil Co. of N. J. donated a silver trophy...
This year lifeboat racing, with the Hague Trophy about to be retired, got a new silver cup from another enthusiast, Joseph W. Powell of United Shipyards. Inc. Run off just before the Hague event, not in lifeboats but in uniform Monomoy surf boats borrowed from the U. S. Coast Guard, the first Powell Cup race attracted a field of seven crews, fastest of which proved to be that of the United Fruit Co.'s freighter San José, which stroked the course...
...greatest U. S. marine disasters (TIME, Sept. 17, 1934). Though Acting Captain Warms was the last man to leave his ship, a court presently convicted him of criminal negligence, sentenced him to two years in jail. Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott, who abandoned ship in the first lifeboat, was convicted on the same charge, given four years in jail. The Ward Line was fined $10,000, its Executive Vice President Henry Edward Cabaud $5,000 (TIME, Feb. 10, 1936). Mr. Cabaud and the Line paid their fines, but Warms and Abbott appealed, meanwhile stayed free on bail. Last week, from...
...Ferrol, the Velasco encountered the Loyalist submarine B6. A few lucky shots and the submarine was flooded. She began to sink by the stern. On deck a Rebel seaman snapped away industriously with his camera while the Loyalist crew huddled abaft the conning tower, while an overloaded lifeboat was filled with survivors, while the submarine dived straight down leaving the waters dotted with men swimming for their lives...