Word: lifeboat
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...gallantry at sea," Mrs. Margaret Hope Maberly Gordon, Australian widow, last week received the British Empire Medal from King George VI. Her gallantry: cast adrift from a torpedoed merchantman in the South Atlantic, she had survived a 52-day ordeal in an open lifeboat. Of 17 in the boat, 15 died...
...exploding shells and depth charges in the water. Stowed in the jacket are several new gadgets to aid rescue: a yellow cap (to make its wearer more conspicuous), an electric lamp, a length of rope, a pair of stout loops for rescuers to grab. Another new item of Canadian lifeboat equipment is a supply of heavy socks impregnated with vaseline, to protect sailors from "immersion foot," a circulatory disorder that often leads to gangrene...
...London, Lieut. J. H. G. Goodfellow, R.N.V.R., demonstrated to the Ministry of War Transport a simple stove for lifeboat use which can distill six quarts of fresh water at a time. Compact and light (28 lb.), the little still can burn kerosene or wood...
...Doctors call it immersion foot when a seaman's feet are bloated after long chilling in the sea water shipped by an open lifeboat...
...middle-aged Negro chief cook, on a ship torpedoed at night, was apparently knocked out by the explosion, finally struggled into his life belt in the dark, found his way to the deck, got into a lifeboat. Said he: "My head began to grow very, very large and I couldn't sit up and I commenced to throw up in the boat." His head felt "as large as a chair." Later he had hand tremors, a "pendulum pain" in the left side of his head, wrist weakness, stiff hands with palms that felt very thick. After treatment on Long...