Word: lifeboat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winter of 1929, when Manning was first officer of the old America, his ship came upon the Italian freighter Florida, wallowing helplessly on her beam ends in the stormy mid-Atlantic with a parted rudder chain. Manning volunteered to take a lifeboat with seven men across a quarter-mile of raging, ice-strewn seas to rescue the Italian crew. The 32 men were saved. On his return to New York, he was given a hero's welcome, a ticker-tape parade and a banquet...
...twin rescue jobs which followed will be long remembered among New England mariners. A Coast Guard boatswain's mate named Bernard Webber lashed himself to the wheel of a 36-ft. open power lifeboat and went out to the Pendleton. Eight men had been on the Pendleton's bow; all were lost. But in the light of flares, Webber and his lifeboat snatched 32 seamen on her stern from certain death. A 33rd was drowned...
...young Chinese in faded khaki and peaked military caps, and with Colt revolvers, Mauser automatics and bandoleers. Their leader, a slim, handsome man whose badge of office appeared to be a pair of brown leather gloves, made a short speech. Money, said he. Stanton was ordered to send his lifeboat back to the Wing Sang, to pick up $10.000 in ransom, and a passenger or two as hostages...
...lifeboat came back with about $1,100 (raised by passing the hat among the passengers), and with one of the Wing Sang's three American passengers: Edward Stansbury, deputy chief of the U.S. Information Service on Formosa. In the gleam of a flashlight, the pirates counted the money and grumbled that it was not enough. Back went the lifeboat for more, and returned with approximately...
...Britain on the liner Western Prince to break the bottleneck. In the North Sea the ship was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. One of Howe's chief aides, Gordon Scott, was killed at his side. Howe and other survivors drifted for eight hours in a lifeboat before being rescued. At the dockside in Britain, a newsman asked Howe whether his whole life had flashed before him as he faced death. "Hell no," barked Howe. "I was too damned busy bailing the boat." Howe landed, apparently unshaken by his experience, went straight after what he had come...