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Waves tearing across her deck, the yacht Amphitrite hung on a sand bar off the Carolina coast. Her captain and owner, 40-year-old Samuel Luttrell II, ordered all hands into their 16-ft. lifeboat. With his wife Kathleen, their twelve-year-old son Samuel III and six crew members, he put out into the darkening sea. Just before they cast off, someone grabbed two metal ice trays from the yacht and carried them into the boat...
...first 24 hours in the lifeboat, the Puerto Ricans panicked and drank seawater. The next day all four died. Ships passed the lifeboat, which was in the middle of the steamer lanes, but none...
...rescue the crew of an airplane forced down at sea is to drop a lifeboat. Chief difficulty: the survivors, whether on rafts or swimming, have a hard time getting to the lifeboat, particularly in a stiff wind. Last week the Air Force announced a solution for this problem: a radio-controlled lifeboat that picks up survivors as if it were a seagoing taxi...
When a rescue plane (a modified 6-29) spots the survivors, it drops the lifeboat on a giant (100 ft. in diameter) parachute. When the lifeboat hits the water, a radio operator in the aircraft starts the boat's engine by remote control, then steers it toward the rafts or swimmers. Once on board, the survivors can talk with the plane over a two-way radio. The operator sets their gyro compass on a course that will take them to the nearest land. The boat has fuel for 800 miles; more fuel and water can be dropped. Early...
...local left-wingers are annoyed because the reels for their scheduled picture, "Lifeboat," didn't show up Tuesday night. Four hundred people had to be turned away at the New Lecture Hall...