Word: lifeboat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Captain Hammer-berg explained: "I had no idea we had struck a submarine. We all thought it was some kind of surface vessel and that there would be survivors swimming in the water. We did what I considered-and still consider-the proper thing. We launched a lifeboat and threw out life belts. The survivors we did pick up were not in any fit state to talk and we continued rescue operations without realizing that it was a submarine...