Word: lifeboat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seamen, dead and alive, in lifeboats adrift from Bermuda to Halifax, told the U.S. last week that all was not well off the North American coastline. Near Bermuda a U.S. patrol plane pancaked on the ocean, rescued nine Britons whose tanker was sunk by a German U-boat off New York. A South American steamer spotted a lifeboat half-filled with water and dead sailors, but had to leave them when a periscope broke water near by. Off Nova Scotia, 20 men of the 48-man crew of a torpedoed tanker were picked up. Three semiconscious survivors of the Standard...
...appalling tendency," he remarks, "to sit and watch this happen without taking any action, as though mesmerized by a snake." That time he got away, to crash-land safely "in the back garden of a Brigade cocktail party." When, a few days later, crewmen of the Margate lifeboat dragged Hillary, comatose, out of the North Sea, they rushed him ashore to have his burnt flesh caked with protective tannic acid, his eyes with a coating of gentian violet...
...lifeboat got away. Somehow 76 people, some in night clothes, hair matted with oil, managed to scramble into it or were pulled up from the sea. It was built to carry only 63. Jammed in so tightly that they could not sit down, they floated wretchedly through the rest of the night and into the morning. Rain drenched them, salt spray covered them. There were mornings after mornings. Five died, pleading for coffee or water. They were dropped into...
...years Globe American had been building stoves and ranges. To tall, black-haired, New England-bred Alden Chester, vice president, defense work seemed more important. Last summer he decided that steel lifeboats could as easily be assembly-lined as stoves. Alden Chester hired a naval architect to look over minimum Government specifications, draw up blueprints. They were adopted by the Maritime Commission as standard equipment for the Liberty ships last Aug. 4, and Globe American got a $1,500,000 contract for 1,248 of them. Globe American started boat production on Dec. 1. As prime contractor, it "co-contracted...
Until Globe American submitted its plans, there was no standard U.S. lifeboat; until it began assembly-line production, lifeboats were built at small, coastal shipyards, usually of wood. Into each of Globe American's boats goes one and a half tons of sheet steel. Heavier than wood, less buoyant, air tanks and kapok nevertheless make Globe boats unsinkable...