Word: lifeboat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until the incident of the burst valve, chief topic of conversation on the Conte di Savoid was her $1,000,000 worth of Sperry gyroscopes, installed to keep the ship from rolling. To spite a lifeboat load of admirals, engineers, and college technicians who crossed on the Conte di Savoia to observe their gyro-stabilizers' action, seas remained resolutely calm, and the gyros had no fair test. One day, to show what they could do, the stabilizers were purposely reversed, rocked the ship 10°. Apart from stability, speed is the great feature of the Conte di Savoia...
...Titanic disaster; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. After meeting "Leadville John" Brown at the bottom of a mine shaft, marrying him in three weeks, she tried to spend his $10,000,000 fortune in philanthropy, bizarre clothes and crashing Newport and European society. In a Titanic lifeboat she took her turn at the oars before rescue by the S. S. Carpathia...
...luck that when Louis T. Reichers set his crippled monoplane down in a sea whipped up by a nasty blow, Captain George Fried of the S. S. Roosevelt, famed for his North Atlantic rescues, was there with his equally famed Chief Officer Harry Manning to send overside in a lifeboat. Chief Officer Manning yanked Pilot Reichers out of his foundering plane, unharmed save for a broken nose, a lacerated face. After they clambered back on board, Captain Fried abandoned the lifeboat, pointed his ship toward Manhattan, wrote a signed dispatch for the Associated Press...
...take it off again. He scribbled a note on a message blank, passed it through the little window to ''Sparks's" compartment just abaft the control cabin, saw Sparks (radio operator) begin to pound brass . . . "NHC [the Naval base at Cristobal]-NHC-sighted ten men in lifeboat at 10:22 North 76:52 West-ORMSBEE." With that message and another to Miami on their way, Pilot Ormsbee turned northeast and kited for Barranquilla, hating to think of the eleven pairs of dejected eyes that focussed upon his vanishing ship...
...German War flyer and chief pilot of Scadta air lines, searched from Barranquilla. For two and a half days there was no trace of the shipwrecked men; hope was nearly given up. Then a carpenter's mate on the bridge of the Swan sighted the drifting lifeboat...