Word: lifeboat
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...safety's sake, Captain Charles R. Pilcher of the liner Rangitoto offered to lower a lifeboat when he learned that a passenger, the Most Rev. Dr. Geoffrey F. Fisher, 63, Archbishop of Canterbury, wanted to go ashore in Panama and planned to leave the ship via the jouncing boarding ladder. The sure-footed prelate declined the lifeboat, and when he learned that the captain was partially worried about the ship's safety record, dashed off a limerick for the occasion...
Toward sundown, Clarence Hahn, a General Electric engineer, came out to the cliff above the beach to call his son. He saw the yellow raft almost a mile out. Hahn phoned the Coast Guard Lifeboat Station and the Cleveland Airport. Parents and neighbors came down to the shore; by then the raft had vanished in the lowering darkness...
...Coast Guard lifeboat, directed to the spot, wallowed alongside in seven-foot waves, finally grappled Dickie's half-filled raft. All four adventurers were aboard. Two of them lay with their arms around each other. One of them sprawled over the raft's end, the other lay on the bottom in the sloshing, near-freezing water. All were dead of exposure. Two days later a Coast Guard patrol picked up the derelict canoe, floating emptily, still anyone's prize...
...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...
...house front dwarfing the children on the sidewalk, the green smudge of a treetop peering over the adjoining wall, the sick and sagging figure of the old man himself, and even the murky, unreal light and haphazard composition all helped put across the mood Stuempfig was after. Like The Lifeboat and others of his best works, The Old Man was a familiar scene glimpsed through a mist of tenderness and gloom...