Word: lifeboat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ward Line. Stuck on a shoal 60 mi. east of Jupiter Light on the Florida coast was the S. S. Havana. While the passengers were eating breakfast Captain Alfred W. Peterson sent an SOS. While they were dancing the rumba in the lounge, he let down an empty lifeboat to test sea conditions. He found them rough. But the Havana was pounding, threatening to break up. Taking no chances, Captain Peterson lowered two boatloads of passengers, lowered four more when the Southern Pacific liner El Oceano arrived. Of the Havana's 51 passengers, all were saved...
Spurning lifeboat and life-preservers. Lieutenant Ulm and two companions last week climbed aboard Stella Australis, took off from Oakland on the 2,400-mi. water hop to Honolulu. Nineteen hours later, off-course and lost, the plane's radio crackled out the dread letters PAN, emergency call of the air. Half hour later, fuel exhausted. Lieutenant Ulm landed on the water, sent out a frantic SOS.* Stella Australis could float for 48 hours in a calm sea. But the Pacific became rough and after 48 hours no trace of the Ulm plane had been found by 34 Army & Navy...
...known shipmaster in the U. S. Merchant Marine, Captain Fried, at 57, is famed for his ocean rescues-25 men from the British freighter Antinoe in 1926, 32 men from the Italian freighter Florida in 1929. Month ago, as skipper of the S. S. Washington, he sent out a lifeboat to pick up the survivors of a cinema-chartered plane which crashed 600 mi. at sea, while trying to take off newsreels of King Alexander's assassination (TIME, Oct. 22). For that rescue Captain Fried, standing last week for the last time in the shadow of the Washington...
...ashore, Captain Fried will have to take a salary cut. In his new position he will, among other things, be responsible for the physical inspection of all U. S. vessels in his district, the inspection and examination of all life-saving equipment, licensed officers, able seamen and lifeboat men. On his nights ashore he loves to sit for hours at a window smoking his pipe and watching traffic. His wife, whom he met when she was a guest at the captain's table, does not permit him to drive in it. It makes him too nervous...
...Sure, help yourself to the Atlantic and jump in.' When we were in the water I don't know what happened to one of the girls but when the other seemed about ready to give up I said. 'Come on. girlie, it's only a short walk.' Then a lifeboat picked...